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

A fascinating archaeological discovery in South Africa has revealed that humans were using sophisticated poisoned arrows 60,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Chemical analysis of ...

Yes, bone skates. The oldest example of ice skates are believed to be made of cow and horse bones. "Some artifacts don't even ...

Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...

A tiny bird figurine discovered in a refuse heap in the Henan province of China is changing what historians thought they knew ...

Last summer, Linda Åsheim found a ring so beautiful it looks like it could have been made yesterday. But Åsheim is an ...

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

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

Known as a carnyx, the instrument is only the third of its kind to be found in Britain. It was discovered in the territory of ...

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

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

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