The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were packed with wild grasses and wild legumes, like clover, all cooked together ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

Ancient DNA from Ajvide graves shows Stone Age burials often grouped extended relatives, highlighting the importance of wider ...

Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has ...

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

Soil from 7,000-year-old Swedish graves reveals hidden feathers and fur, showing some Stone Age people were fully dressed at their burial.

The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, ...

Over 500 ancient stone monuments dot the rolling hills of southwestern Spain. La Torre-La Janera stretches across 220 acres in Huelva province. Prehistoric humans built this sacred landscape starting ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.