Scientists and historians finally know why hundreds of human bones are still being pulled from the bottom of the River Thames ...

In the Neolithic age stone axes were produced in ... The central fells became a centre for stone tool manufacture using the natural resources of fine green-grained stone occurring high up on ...

However, in 1949 new dating technology arrived that changed scientific opinion on the age of the remains Using fluorine tests, Dr Kenneth Oakley, a geologist at the Natural History Museum, discovered ...

This was the time before history was recorded ... At Swansea Museum, they have a replica of the ancient skeleton, and it gives us some clues about how early Stone Age people lived.

Earlier this month, children from Greenmeadow Primary School travelled back in time to the Stone Age ... museum's collections feature artefacts dating from pre-history to the present, including ...

Perhaps a natural disaster or climatic event that caused crops to fail triggered the stone "sacrifice," the ... an archaeologist at the National Museum of Denmark, said in the statement.

This supports the idea that demographic changes played a role in the transition from the Middle to the Later Stone Age, a time when new types ... a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in ...