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 ...

While life emerged around 4 billion years ago, human history—from the earliest humans approximately 2.5 million years ago to the present day—represents a relatively short period in the scale of ...

Archaeologists found a Paleolithic rock shelter with hundreds of stone tools, blades and bones in a river valley, photos show and a study said. Photo from Zaidner and Kurbanov (2024) Walking through a ...