Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

One small artifact opened up a world of discovery of a Neolithic civilization with a remarkably advanced social structure.

A male skeleton named TBH1 reveals he was killed by a quartz projectile strike about 12,000 years ago. Archaeologists ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

Are these some of the earliest weapons in human history? History Hit’s Tristan Hughes speaks to Dr Annemieke Milks, ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 ...

Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa showcase the knowledge and strategy of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, according to a new study.

DNA evidence identifies Ronald Joe Cole, a Ventura County teen missing since 1965, as the homicide victim discovered in a ...

A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about early hunter-gatherer practices.