Ancient genomes from northwest Europe show that farming, foraging, migration, and marriage shaped prehistory in ways far more ...
During construction work on a stormwater overflow basin in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved 2,400-year-old Iron Age structure along the banks of the Main ...
A technique that has rewritten the timeline of prehistoric art may be overestimating the ages of cave paintings, some ...
A new analysis of crystals that formed inside one of the bones shows that the site dates back to an ice age 146,000 years ago ...
In her new book, The 21st Century Brain, scientist Hannah Critchlow explores the overlooked skills that will be necessary to ...
In Norway’s highest mountains, experts are scouring perilous terrain for pieces of the past, long stored in mint condition in ...
Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...
For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...
When imagining our early human ancestors in prehistoric Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, one might envision ...
The funerary marker, which surfaced on a New Orleans property last year, once belonged to a Roman soldier who died nearly ...
The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist ...
The remains of a furnace used for heat-treating stone tools at the Xinmiaozhuang site Photo: Screenshot of a report released ...