Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age ...

Scientists have uncovered 15,000-year-old medicinal herbs, shedding light on Stone Age health practices that echo today’s ...

Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The bubonic and septicemic forms — mainly infecting the lymph nodes and ...

Advanced analysis of prehistoric cave art has revealed new insights into the fishing practices of Paleolithic societies.

Nearly 16,000-year-old portrayals of fish surrounded by nets had evaded detection until a new technique took magnification to a new level.

Ancient stone goods found across France may have been made by skilled craftspeople in what is now Paris, who traded along ...

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago.

“I am at a top London hospital and yet at times I feel as though we are operating in the stone age,” one doctor tells the FT. For example, doctors email lists of patients to themselves to ...

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These floors have gone out of fashion in some parts of the world, but in Stone Age Europe they were a cutting-edge technology, according to a study published in the journal Radiocarbon.

Petroglyphs are images etched into stone. They’re created by carving away the darker ... and archaeologists sometimes rely on ...

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