Newsweek

Unique Stone Age Ceremonial Site With ‘Extremely Unusual’ Remains Found

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a "unique" prehistoric ceremonial site in southern Sweden that dates back to the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age. The unusual site, located in the municipality of Hammar in Skåne province, consists of a ...
RealClearScience

Rare Stone Age Wooden Tools Uncovered in China

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, the tools have now been dated by a team of ...
Phys.org

40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa Dutkiewicz at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte ...
Newsweek

Unknown Stone Age Farming Society Discovered in Africa

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown early farming society from the Neolithic period, otherwise known as the New Stone Age, a study reports. Research conducted at the long-known but poorly studied archaeological site of Oued Beht ...
CNN

Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts from Germany, are very different from modern writing ...