The Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in the east of Oregon may be the oldest discovered human settlement in Norrth America, but could ...

​​Rivers may seem as old as the hills, but they have life cycles just like other natural features do. Many grow and make ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.

A nearly 10,000-year-old pyre discovered in Africa has revealed the country’s oldest cremation. In a study published in the ...

The research team identified chemical residues of poison from gifbol, a poisonous plant still used by traditional hunters in ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

Archaeologists in Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar have been delving into the past to uncover some fascinating finds and they ...

The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...