Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

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 ...

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

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 ...

You don't have to walk by a dog park to know that domestic dogs come in all shapes and sizes. From two-pound Chihuahuas to 150-pound Newfoundlands, chunky Labradors to slender Vizlas, our canine ...

Incised deer, Cova Dones, Spain(© A. Ruiz-Redondo, V. Barciela, X. Martorell) Painted deer heads, Cova Dones, Spain(© A. Ruiz-Redondo, V. Barciela, X. Martorell) Deep inside Cova Dones, a cave in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 10,000 years ago, a teenage girl in present-day Estonia put a piece of birch tar in her mouth, chewed it, and spit it out. Now, researchers in Estonia are using the unassuming prehistoric ...

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 ...