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Imagine You Living in the Stone Age?

Stone Age. And during this period, that spanned nearly 2.5 million years, our ancestors faced three ice ages, limited ...
Greek Reporter

Ancient Site and Artifacts Dating Back 2,500 Years Found in Afghanistan

Archaeologists uncover a 2,500-year-old Iron Age site in Afghanistan, revealing stone structures, a drikning vessel and early ...

This could be the oldest evidence of fire-making

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.
Rolling Stone

Here’s How Spotify Wrapped Calculated Your Listening Age — And Here’s Rolling Stone’s

“Age is just a number. So don’t take this personally,” the Spotify slide warns, before revealing each user’s calculated listening age. How exactly did Spotify land on that number, though? Marc Hazan, ...
Phys.org

Oldest mule in western Europe found in early Iron Age burial site

Researchers from the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar and the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Barcelona have identified the oldest mule documented in the western Mediterranean ...
National Geographic news

What was Britain like before the Roman conquest? A new hoard of treasures gives us clues.

A cauldron, chariot parts, ornate jewelry: Precious objects found in the Melsonby Hoard are shedding new light into the rituals of Iron Age Britain. A copper alloy harness fitting with blue glass ...
Psychology Today

Our Stone-Age Bodies Struggle in a Modern World

While life emerged around 4 billion years ago, human history—from the earliest humans approximately 2.5 million years ago to the present day—represents a relatively short period in the scale of ...
NBC News

People with more muscle mass and less visceral fat have younger brains, study finds

As you age, you gradually lose muscle mass and gain visceral body fat, a type of fat deep inside your body that surrounds your heart, kidneys and other organs. Now, scientists say the ratio of ...
The New Yorker

In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...
Science Daily

A mysterious metal find in Sweden is rewriting Iron Age history

A Swedish plano-convex ingot once thought to be from the Bronze Age was revealed through chemical and isotopic testing to belong to the Iron Age. Its composition closely matches Iron Age finds from ...
Archaeology

Sweden’s Surprise Ingot Dated to the Iron Age

SÄRDAL, SWEDEN—According to a statement released by the University of Gothenburg, a team of researchers led by Serena Sabatini of the University of Gothenburg analyzed an intact plano-convex ingot—a ...
PC Gamer

Roblox to make facial age checks mandatory to access any chat features, and will put 'common-sense limits' on the age ranges users can chat within

Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, ...