Step into the brutal world of the Stone Age, where survival meant mastering the art of weaponry. Explore the savage tools our ancestors wielded—from bone daggers to stone-tipped arrows—and uncover the ...

Of 10 weapons studied, two were made from human bone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. About 11,000 years ago, Stone Age ...

Although they were physically superior to us, Neanderthals did not prevail. What made them different and why did they become ...

An amateur archaeologist’s collection of rare Stone Age relics found while beachcombing in Kent is expected to sell for tens ...

Combining those two ingredients — wood and rock — was likely the next step, yielding deadlier, more durable spears or stone axes, for example. It all sounds so obvious from a modern perspective, but ...

Thousands of human bones were among other artifacts like pre-Colombian pottery, an Italian mosaic and apparent Chinese Stone Age weapons ...

The roots of organized conflict in the Southern Levant go back to at least the late Stone Age, according to a recently released study by Israel Antiquities Authority researchers. The study ...

Spanish scientists built Stone Age weapons and smashed fake skulls to see what damage they would do. They found adze was used in massacre.

Technology’s Windows on the Stone Age Scholars had long recognized the importance of the Caucasus in the saga of human history. But the violent convulsions of the 20th century—two world wars ...

Stone Age people in Belgium were hunting with spear-throwers more than 30,000 years ago — the earliest known evidence of such a weapon in Europe, a new study suggests.

For her, the notion that our Stone Age forebears were artisans serves to humanize them. “Working wood is slow, even if you’re good at it,” she said.