An illustration represents Stone Age humans wearing bear skins. A new finding suggests humans skinned cave bears for clothing as early as 300,000 years ago.Benoît Clarys; Insider 300,000-year-old cave ...

Not long ago, I left my home in sunny Australia to join an archaeological dig in the Siberian mountains of eastern Russia. On the first morning, I awoke cold to my core, even in a well-padded sleeping ...

This piece of cloth is from the Stone Age. For 60 years, academics have debated whether it is made of wool or linen. So what is it really made of? The answer will surprise you. Credit: Antoinette Rast ...

A Stone Age woman who lived 4,000 years ago is leaning on her walking stick and looking ahead as a spirited young boy bursts into a run, in a stunning life-size reconstruction now on display in Sweden ...

Human cannibalism has probably existed throughout human history, and the Mesolithic period was no exception. Some of the earliest evidence for prehistoric human cannibalism in Western Europe has been ...