The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists discovered a 6400–6100 B.C. sandstone figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, marking a rare find from the Mesolithic era. Microscopic ...

.IN attempting to give an account of the development of civilisation from the end of the paleolithic age to the bronze age in Europe and adjacent regions, within the compass of this small volume, Mr.

While playing outside her school in Norway, an 8-year-old girl found an unexpected treasure — not a lost ball or a discarded jump rope, but a flint dagger crafted by Stone Age people 3,700 years ago.

National Geographic grantee Killian Driscoll is an archaeologist who specializes in prehistoric archaeology. He studied archaeology and history at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and ...

A two-inch Mesolithic stone figurine from Azerbaijan tells a tale of cultural growth. It’s the first cultural find from the area of the South Caucasus. The sandstone figurine depicts a human, and ...

There’s no face on the oldest piece of art—a small sandstone figurine of a human from the Mesolithic era—ever found in one region of modern-day Azerbaijan. In a study published by Archaeological ...