The development of new hunting projectiles by European hunter-gatherers during the Mesolithic may have been linked to territoriality in a rapidly-changing climate, according to a study published July ...

In Britain, the Mesolithic period (10BC to 4000BC) was the last time people lived exclusively as hunter-fisher-gatherers. The recent discovery and excavation of a series of large Mesolithic pits at ...

A site on the banks of an Aberdeenshire river has been found to be a hotspot of prehistoric activity. In just three days earlier this year hundreds of stone tools were uncovered. Archaeologists hope ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved Stone Age settlement, dubbed the "Stone Age Atlantis," submerged off Denmark's coast. This 8,500-year-old site offers unprecedented insight into ...

MUIR OF ORD, SCOTLAND—BBC News reports that 6,000-year-old tools made from red deer antlers have been uncovered at a site at Tarradale, located in the Scottish Highlands. The hunter-gatherers’ tools ...

Udupi: Their 'hunt' succeeded when the team stumbled upon a collection of sharp stone tools near Idur-Kunjadi in Udupi district. Their 'discovery,' is likely to help in studying in what could be one ...

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 ...

A Mesolithic site may date from as early as 9000 BC, by which time hunter-gatherers had reoccupied an area near Asfordby, England, after the last ice age. These hunters crossed the land bridge from ...