Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

Similarities in fabrication techniques suggest that Paleolithic people passed on their methods - and may have shared them ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Sulawesi, Indonesia has revealed a 44,000-year-old cave painting that may represent the oldest ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

Some 60,000-year-old wild Sichuan pepper seeds unearthed at the Mengxihe Site in Ziyang, Sichuan province, have helped shed ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

Archaeologists like me are interested in the Middle Paleolithic — a period spanning 250,000 to 30,000 years ago ... People ...

University of California, RiversideMany experts didn’t think such tiny prehistoric fossils would ever be found. Fortunately, modern technology proved them wrong. Researchers have uncovered evidence of ...

The drawings differ from many of the prehistoric cave paintings discovered from the Upper Paleolithic period in that they are completely geometric and do not depict humans, animals, or any other ...

What steps can researchers take to combat crop viruses? This is what a recent study published in Nucleic Acids Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany investigated a novel ...