MailOnline's new map, based on ... dark-skinned during the Mesolithic period (from around 12,000 years ago), while 35 per cent were classed as light-skinned. By the Neolithic period, France ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the Neolithic ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists ...