Explore the Pleistocene epoch, ice ages, megafauna, and human adaptations in prehistoric times.
A new study from central China is changing how scientists think about creativity and survival among ancient humans. Archaeologists studying ...
Archaeologists working in dry caves in Oregon have reported what appears to be the oldest known physical evidence of sewn ...
A buried campsite in Alaska’s middle Tanana Valley offers fresh evidence about early human movement into North America. Excavations at ...
Researchers have identified a fatal bear mauling as the cause of death for a Gravettian teenager buried about 28,000 years ...
Researchers working in southern Greece have identified the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to about 430,000 years ago. The ...
Archaeologists have identified a tool dating to around 500,000 years ago made from elephant bone, at the Boxgrove site in ...
A faded hand outline on a limestone wall in southeast Sulawesi now holds the oldest known date for rock art. ...
A set of ancient human bones from Casablanca reshapes how we think about early human history. New research places a ...
A team of archaeologists excavating southern Africa has found the oldest direct evidence of human use of poisoned weapons, extending ...
A sweeping genetic investigation is reshaping what researchers know about the first journeys of modern humans into Australia and its ...
