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

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 ...

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

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

The Cro-Magnons were among the first modern humans to permanently settle Europe during the Ice Age. They hunted mammoths, ...

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

“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 ...

When imagining our early human ancestors in prehistoric Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, one might envision ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...

Since the outset of the Quaternary, whales and sharks have ruled the seas, topping a food chain with otters, seals, dugongs, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been ...