Explore the Pleistocene epoch, ice ages, megafauna, and human adaptations in prehistoric times.
A recently analyzed set of 1.5-million-year-old Kenyan fossils has provided the most complete view yet of the anatomy of Paranthropus ...
A new paper published recently in PLOS ONE has uncovered evidence that early humans who inhabited the region near present-day ...
The Gobi Desert today is one of the driest and harshest landscapes on Earth, stretching over northern China and Mongolia. ...
A new detailed analysis of archaeological evidence demonstrates that early human populations of southern South America relied on extinct megafauna—such ...
A crushed and distorted skull discovered in central China nearly 35 years ago is now redefining our understanding of early ...
Archaeologists in Southeast Asia have unearthed what may be the oldest mummies in the world, dating back as far as ...
A set of ancient stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the timeline for human ...
A recent study of ancient teeth unearthed at South China’s Hualongdong site is revolutionizing scientists' understanding of human evolution in ...
A recent study has revealed that humans living on the Atlantic coast of modern-day France and Spain were crafting tools ...
A team of archaeologists has made a breakthrough in Iraq’s Western Desert, where seven Paleolithic sites have been discovered comprising ...
