Archaeologists uncovered 15,800-year-old Ice Age artifacts in an ancient human shelter, including stone tools, animal bones, ...

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began ...

A deer rib pulled from an ancient butchery site in central China carried an unexpected clue. Inside the bone, calcite ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

During the coldest part of our ancient history, humans survived by tucking themselves into caves in the central Balkans, showing a resilience previously unknown to researchers and opening a fresh ...

Tens of thousands of years before the first cities rose, Ice Age hunter-gatherers were already building monumental structures, forging trade networks, and gathering for feasts that may have laid the ...

Tiny crystals hidden inside an ancient bone forced scientists to redraw the timeline of a famous Homo juluensis tool site.

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans ...

“The calcite crystals inside the bone acted like a natural clock, allowing us to refine the age of the site,” Zhao explained. Previously, researchers thought that the tools found in Lingjing were ...

While Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived near each other and likely interacted, they usually preferred living in slightly ...

What they had, it turns out, is the oldest intact climate record ever recovered in Western Europe — a continuous chemical ...