The Stone Age timeline encompasses a huge chunk of human prehistory—and life wasn’t only about hunting and gathering. Because of just how long ago it was, we tend to think there wasn’t a ...

Life in the Stone Age UNDER THE MOUNTAIN WALL: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age, by Peter Matthiessen, Viking, 256 pp., $7.50.

In 1988, archaeologists uncovered the grave of a Mesolithic woman who lived in Belgium's Meuse Valley 10,500 years ago. At the time, DNA technology wasn't advanced enough to determine what she had ...

Related article Stone Age chewing gum holds clues to the life of a young girl who lived 5,700 years ago “Interestingly, the grooves were not always made on the broadest side of the tooth, ...

Life in the Stone Age was pretty tough for our ancestors. There were animals to fend off and track for food, new tools to make, and massive swings in climate to adapt to.

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in ...

And in the spirit of the Stone Age, archaeologists on the Mediterranean island recreated a prehistoric pit feast this summer — feeding 200 people with pig and goat, slow-roasted underground ...