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

Experience the remarkable journey of solo construction as a skilled builder transforms a remote jungle clearing into a stunning underground dwelling. Using primitive technology and only hand tools, he ...

Scientists examining traces left behind by early humans continue to find evidence that refuses to stay neatly in place. New ...

A major ancient Roman industrial site on the River Wear may be the most important discovery of the last hundred years, ...

A deep excavation in Indonesia has uncovered evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

New archaeological evidence from Sulawesi suggests that Homo sapiens may have lived alongside a mysterious species.

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

The people at the center of this discovery are known as the Sambaqui. For nearly 7,000 years, these groups lived along the ...

The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material sources suggests a deep understanding of their landscapes. It allowed early ...