In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans butchered animals. Amidst bones, archaeologists found complex stone tools that ...

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

A faint fingerprint pressed into black tar more than two millennia ago may help archaeologists solve one of Northern Europe’s ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

They might just rewrite the history of human migration.

For over 60 years, scientists believed they had found some of the oldest human fossils in Japan in the Ushikawa district. But ...

A prehistoric hidden cave and hippo bones found beneath Pembroke Castle could transform understanding of ancient life in Britain, researchers said ...

Human bones were a sort of social currency during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in central Europe. The skeletal remains of the deceased were often ripped apart, severed, and dug out of graves ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution of malaria in Africa in the last 70,000 years could hav ...