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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

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

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

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

A modern analysis of 7-million-year-old remains suggest this mysterious ancient primate is the oldest human ancestor ever found.