The Stone Age
From the first toolmakers to the dawn of farming: hunter-gatherer life, cave art, megalith builders, and the Neolithic Revolution that changed everything.
Articles on The Stone Age (6)
Jebel Sahaba: What a Restudy Did to the Oldest Massacre
For fifty years Jebel Sahaba in Sudan was the oldest known massacre. A 2021 re-examination of the same bones...
Talheim, 5000 BC: The Pit That Changed the Neolithic Argument
Thirty-four people were killed with axes and adzes and thrown into a pit in Neolithic Germany. What Talheim...
Göbekli Tepe: The Monuments Hunter-Gatherers Raised Before Farming
Göbekli Tepe's carved stone enclosures in southeastern Turkey show hunter-gatherers building monuments...
Lascaux and Altamira: How Two Caves Rewrote the Story of the First Artists
Discovered a century apart, the painted caves of Lascaux and Altamira forced scholars to accept that Ice Age...
Doggerland: Europe's Lost Mesolithic Homeland Beneath the North Sea
Doggerland was a thriving Mesolithic landscape beneath today's North Sea, drowned by rising seas and a...
Ötzi the Iceman: Solving a 5,300-Year-Old Murder in the Alps
In 1991 hikers found a 5,300-year-old body frozen in the Alps: Ötzi the Iceman, whose murder and genome...
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