Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...
A MYSTERY over the tragic burial of a mauled teen dating back 27,500 has finally been solved – and a giant bear is to blame.
Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...
A teenager's skeleton lay supine in a shallow pit on a bed of red ocher, his remains adorned with several ivory pendants, ...
Archaeological finds in northern China reveal a previously unknown Paleolithic culture dating to around 40,000 years ago.
Excavations at the Husta Bronze Age site in Wenquan county, Xinjiang, revealed one of the region's earliest Bronze Age ...
If true, this would make The Prince fossil the oldest known example of a modern human killed by a wild animal, and possibly ...
Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...
The government and stakeholders must act now to protect archeological sites on Sulawesi from a growing list of threats, from climate change to mining.
Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like Malta and Australia. Doing so meant striking out in unknowable conditions.
This 'negative hand,' which researchers have dated to at least 67,800 years ago, is now the oldest known example of cave ...
(CNN) — The outline of a hand made with red pigment on the wall of a cave in Indonesia at least 67,800 years ago may be the world’s oldest rock art, according to a new study. The faded hand stencil, ...