New research shows early humans relied on many plant foods. They ground seeds, cooked roots, and used simple tools long ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated ...

Archaeologists working in the mountains of northeastern Uzbekistan have uncovered tiny stone points that may be the oldest known arrowheads on Earth, dating back roughly 80,000 years. The discovery ...

While life emerged around 4 billion years ago, human history—from the earliest humans approximately 2.5 million years ago to the present day—represents a relatively short period in the scale of ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...

Deep underground, thousands of years of silence are abruptly broken by a researcher singing. His voice seems to awaken the walls of the cavern as the intimate space comes alive with the sound of our ...

As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...

What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some 18,000 years ago, the answer was simple: mammoth bones.

The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...

Mani (Gary Mounfield ) bassist with The Stone Roses rehearsing in Manchester , United Kingdom, 1994. (Photo by Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images) Loving tributes have been paid after it was announced that ...

International research and highly-specialized divers are bringing an underground, underwater world to the surface ...

Why do people wear clothes, and when did they start doing so? To answer this fundamental question, archaeologist Ian Gilligan of the University of Sydney went back to the beginning. “There’s little ...