Stone age

40,000-year-old markings may be the roots of script

German discovery of Stone Age art may reveal a precursor to writing

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The mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave, approximately 40,000 years old, bears multiple sequences of crosses and dots on its surface.
Stone age site in Germany yields Europe's oldest blue pigment, rewriting prehistoric art palette.

Stone age site in Germany yields Europe's oldest blue pigment, rewriting prehistoric art palette

The discovery changes everything we thought we knew about Palaeolithic pigment use in Europe, said archaeologist Wisher.

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11,000-year-old Stone-Age in Saudi Arabia pushes Fertile Crescent borders.

11,000-year-old Stone-Age in Saudi Arabia pushes Fertile Crescent borders

Saudi Arabia’s Heritage Commission says the find marks a scientific turning point, linking northwest Saudi Arabia to the Fertile Crescent and humanity's shift from nomadism to settlement.

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Stone age tools.

'Man the Hunter' challenged: Stone Age graves show women buried with toolkits too

Published in PLOS One, the Stone Dead Project finds many grave tools were unused or broken, suggesting ritual offerings across the eastern Baltic at a site with 330 burials from 7,500–2,500 BC.

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Study reveals Stone Age methods of extracting animal teeth for jewelry

Wet cooking and pit steaming allowed for high extraction rates without damaging the teeth, also cooking the meat to make it edible.

JUNE 24, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Study reveals Stone Age methods of extracting animal teeth for jewelry. Illustration

Philip II's Legacy: Restored ancient city of Philippopolis at Nebet Tepe opens

The restored Nebet Tepe archaeological complex in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, was officially opened on March 20.

MARCH 22, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Nebet Tepe hill, Bulgaria.

Have Brazil's Capuchin monkeys reached the Stone Age?

Findings challenge the notion that early hominin stone tools were always intentionally produced.

MARCH 13, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Capuchin monkey with a rock.

Stone Age artifacts from a land that sank 9,000 years ago were retrieved from the seabed

An average of 50 square miles of land were lost every year between 8000 BCE and 6500 BCE.

DECEMBER 27, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of Stone Age artifacts on the seafloor of the North Sea. Cromer, Norfolk.