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 ...

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

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

Ice Age tools dating back 146,000 years, discovered in an ancient Chinese cave, reveal surprising human adaptations to a ...

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

“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 ...

On a dry lakebed in southern New Mexico, a set of ghostly footprints has forced archaeologists to redraw the map of the first Americans. These tracks, pressed into mud by teenagers, children, and ...

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the ...

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 ...

Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been occupying these caves in the Balkans at a time when other ...