A reconstruction of the face of Avgi, a teenager who lived in Mesolithic Greece, around 7,000 BC, stuns viewers.

A recent DNA report of a 10,000-year-old skeleton named Cheddar Man found a match with a history teacher from Britain. Cheddar Man is Britain’s oldest human skeleton that was found at Somerset’s Gough ...

This documentary presents a chronological overview of the Mesolithic period. As ice retreated, humans adapted to forests, rivers, and coastal environments. Toolmaking became more specialized, and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists discovered a 6400–6100 B.C. sandstone figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, marking a rare find from the Mesolithic era. Microscopic ...

Archaeologists have discovered up to 25 Mesolithic pits on what has been described as a "nationally important prehistoric site". The pits, found in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, are up to 5m (16ft) ...

Mesolithic is the period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The terms "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic" were introduced by John Lubbock in his work Pre-historic Times in 1865. The additional ...

Ruins of a prehistoric stone wall submerged off the northwest coast of France may be evidence that a sunken city of legend ...

The presence of nearby megalithic remains points to cultural continuity from the Stone Age through the Mesolithic to the ...

Mesolithic Britain was thought to have been inhabited by hunter-gatherers, constantly on the move in search of food; however, the recent excavation of a dwelling in Northumbria reveals our Stone Age ...

A genderless human figurine, carved 8,000 years ago, raises questions about how agriculture arrived in the South Caucasus.