An archaeological team discovered a 3,700-year-old ceremonial stone circle site in the English woods. The discovery came thanks to an archaeology enthusiast prompting the search near a known standing ...

In this pioneering study, researchers analyzed 7,500-year-old African women and found a whole new human lineage.

The prehistoric settlement of Wangen-Hinterhorn and its pile dwellings were first identified in the shallow water zone along ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool ...

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

The moratorium, which went into effect in October 2023, prohibits professors from teaching and researching using Native American cultural items, human remains and images or reproductions of these ...

The Temple Anthropology Lab and Museum, with its 5 million artifacts, just opened to the public for the first time ...

Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...