Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal ...

Earlier this week, we reported on a Swedish archaeologist who spent the last three years sailing the fjords in a replica boat similar to those the Vikings may have used. Not to be outdone, Japanese ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes from northern Taiwan and steering southeast toward Okinawa. A modern crew ...

Archaeologists estimate that humans first arrived on the Ryukyu Islands off the southwestern coast of Japan sometime between 35,000 and 27,500 years ago. How they did so, however, remains a mystery, ...

A dugout canoe is pictured before departure on a crossing across a region of the East China Sea to Yonaguni Island (Reuters) -Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked ...

About 30,000 years ago, humans arrived in Japan's southern Ryukyu Islands, 110km from Taiwan. The archaeological record hasn't preserved any clues as to how these Paleolithic people made the crossing ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when ...

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues far earlier than scholars believed. A stone artifact from near the end of the ...

It has really been only in the most recent history that humans — well, the majority of humans anyway — have had the luxury of deciding what they want to eat. This has led to endless debate and ...