Most historians thought large-scale whale hunting only started in the Arctic and the northern Pacific around 4,000 years ago. New research now shows the story is much older and reaches much farther ...

Every single day, discoveries emerge that alter the course of humanity. One day, it's just a giant floating rock until we ...

The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...

These weren’t clumsy rocks — they were precision tools of survival and slaughter. Stone Age weapons were savage by design, ...

Members of the John Carroll Society gathered Jan. 11 to celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord at St. Patrick’s ...

The Sein Island submerged stone structures include a football-field-long granite wall off Brittany that dates back more than ...

Chemical traces on 60,000-year-old stone arrowheads from South Africa suggest ancient hunters used plant poison.

Archaeologists excavating at Tadım Fortress and Höyük in eastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkable stone seal dating back 7,500 years, pushing evidence of organized settlement in the Elazig region ...

Mammoth bones dating back between 30,000 and 40,000 years discovered in a basement in Lower Austria, a key find in a century.