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DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat around 8,500 years ago.

Archaeologists are recovering Stone Age artefacts from the bottom of the North Sea

To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In today’s fast changing world, older technologies, even those from a few years ago, are often described dismissively as “Stone Age”.

From the remains of nearly 100 ancient individuals, we have reconstructed two extensive prehistoric family trees from a 6,700-year-old cemetery in France, revealing fresh insights into a Stone Age community.

Ancient Weaving Techniques Unearthed in Philippines, Pushing Back Evidence by 30,000 Years

How did people talk in the Stone Age? – Tsubamé, aged eight, London, UK

Britain’s own ‘Atlantis’ has been found according to experts who recently discovered ancient artefacts in the North Sea which belonged to Stone Age settlements submerged under water

People of ancient culture demonstrated ‘complex technical system’ for transforming raw materials, scientists say