Stone-Age Winter KABLOONA—Gontran de Poncins—Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). Gontran de Poncins is a French ethnographer who can also draw, make photographs and write. A highly civilized man, ...

Learn more about the colorful and shiny stones that were turned into tools as many as 40,000 years ago, which were sometimes sourced from afar.

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

Humans Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks? Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history.

In fact, a shorter attention span is simply one side effect of a recent explosion of screen distractions, as neurologist and author Richard E. Cytowic argues in his new book, "Your Stone Age Brain ...

The excavations are also revealing that the Stone Age people who constructed humanity's earliest known sophisticated buildings some 115 centuries ago were also prolific monumental sculptors.