The Stone Age in Britain took place between around 15000BC to 2500BC. The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), ...

A two-inch Mesolithic stone figurine from Azerbaijan tells a ... and trace life back to Middle Paleolithic and Mesolithic times. The figurine in question (dubbed Unit 5.2) was initially almost ...

It represents the earliest example in Britain of a ritual burial. The Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age (10000-4000 BC) Continuous settlement of Wales by human beings began with the end of the latest ...

The small cache was discovered at the archaeological site of Strandvägen, a settlement from the Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age. "The Strandvägen site is one of the largest Mesolithic sites in ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

The site near Scarborough originally lay on the shore of an island in an ancient lake and dates to the Mesolithic, or ‘Middle Stone Age’ period. Over thousands of years the lake slowly filled in with ...

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 ...