The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ever to exist on Earth. Elephants weighed around ten thousand kilograms ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...

A study led by McKenna Litynski, a recent Ph.D. graduate in anthropology and adjunct assistant professor at the University of ...

Archaeological sites across central China reveal that at various points between 2,500 and 4,000 years ago, disasters rocked ...

Fruita’s location makes it an ideal stop for anyone traveling through western Colorado. It’s just minutes from Grand Junction and right off Interstate 70, so you can easily add it to your itinerary ...

An extraordinary rhino fossil found in the Arctic is reshaping everything we know about prehistoric life and evolution.

The caution kept the mammoth extinction story intact, but it turned the bones into a new kind of mystery. A run of ...

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt. It is just 63 millimeters long ...

An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen stone tools, highlighting unexpected technological sophistication 500,000 years ...

Unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points have been identified from their impact traces in the oldest occupation layers of the Obi-Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago.

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what the languages of prehistoric humans may have sounded like.

Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that ...