Ancient DNA from 348 individuals who lived between 1,700 and 45,000 years ago is reshaping what we know about the evolution ...

The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it on a fire. After a good day’s hunting people could feast on meat.

A period of climatic and social upheaval ensued ... Finds of much larger concentrations of artifacts suggest that Mesolithic people, like later North American hunter-gatherers, came together ...

The mesolithic period had been somewhat neglected by British archæologists; and it is probable that it came as a surprise, even in archaeological circles, to find how considerable was the amount ...

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past ...

PROFESSOR Martin Bell, of Reading University, gave a fascinating talk on Mesolithic archaeology in the Severn Estuary to the ...

Among the finds that the team recovered were the bones of animals that people hunted, tools and weapons made ... of an island in an ancient lake and dates to the Mesolithic, or ‘Middle Stone Age’ ...