Prehistoric Era

Human Evolution Ice Age Stone Age Early Humans Upper Paleolithic Human Development Paleolithic Period Neanderthal Culture Pleistocene Epoch Neolithic Period

Oldest Known Handheld Wooden Tools, 430,000 Years Old, Unearthed in Greece

Exceptional lakebed preservation at Marathousa 1 reveals shaped wooden tools that expand the known Middle Pleistocene toolkit.

Oldest Handheld Wooden Tools Found at 430,000-Year-Old Site in Greece

Oldest Elephant-Bone Tool in Europe Identified at Boxgrove

Study Finds Cannibalised Neanderthal Women and Children at Belgium's Goyet Caves 45,000 Years Ago

Oldest Evidence of Deliberate Fire-Making in Europe Found in England, 400,000 Years Ago

Oldest Clear Evidence of Intentional Fire-Making Found at 400,000-Year-Old Suffolk Site

Oldest Confirmed Human Fire-Making Found at 400,000-Year-Old UK Site

Study Pushes Europe’s Earliest Fire-Making Back to 400,000 Years

Genetic Study Dates First Settlement of Australia to 60,000 Years, Via Two Routes

37,000-Year-Old Thorny Bamboo Fossil From Manipur Points to Ice-Age Refuge in Northeast India

Study Finds Selective Exocannibalism of Non-Local Neanderthals at Belgium’s Goyet Caves

Ken Follett Debuts Stonehenge Novel in Madrid With Immersive Launch

Scientists Reconstruct 300,000-Year-Old Horse DNA, Extending Limits of Ancient Genetic Preservation

Portugal’s First Neanderthal Footprints Point to Coastal Living and Hunting Tactics

Düsseldorf Hobby Archaeologist Finds Mammoth Molar on Rhine Riverbank

Indigo Molecule Found on 34,000-Year-Old Tools Points to Early Plant Processing in Georgia

Skhūl Child Fossil Shows Mixed Human–Neanderthal Traits, Pushing Interbreeding to 140,000 Years Ago

Cow Tooth Study Strengthens Stonehenge’s Link to Wales

Study Recasts 140,000-Year-Old Skhūl Child as Earliest Homo Sapiens–Neandertal Hybrid

Archaeologists Recover Second Mammoth Tusk and Skull Fragments at Suedlink Site