A little over a decade ago ancient stone tools dating to 130,000 years were discovered on the Island of Crete in Greece, ...

The man, who died roughly 3,800 years ago, may have been a prominent military leader and was buried in an elaborate fashion.

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years. It ...

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years ...

The hominins who lived at Gantangqing lived a heavily plant-based subsistence lifestyle. They had access to meat, and also ...

New research led by University of Oxford researchers has found that old age likely impacts the habitual tool-use behaviors of ...

New research reveals Stone Age foragers in Africa traveled miles to collect colorful stones, showing early trade, taste, and ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the raw material for the manufacture of tools.

In 1988, excavations at Belgium’s Margaux cave revealed the burial of several Stone Age women. Now, a study of one woman’s DNA has helped artists produce a facial reconstruction to show what she ...

This team tried to cross 140 miles of treacherous ocean like stone-age humans—and it worked Long-standing questions about migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered ...

In a new study, researchers reenacted how people in Taiwan might have reached the Ryukyu Islands tens of thousands of years ago.