Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished coastlines. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes Perhaps the greatest challenge ...

About 250,000 years ago, Stone Age human relatives butchered a bunch of animals with stone tools and didn't wash up afterwards. Now scientists have analyzed the gunk crusted to the tools and figured ...

Geology professor Lucy Wilson prepares to replicate a prehistoric tool by slicing off a section of the rock on the right with a hammer stone on the left. (Roger Cosman/CBC) Lucy Wilson grasps a ...

Sharjah: The "Stones: Prehistoric Tools in Qatar" exhibition continues at the Sharjah Archaeology Museum. Organized by the Sharjah Museums Authority in the UAE, in collaboration with Qatar Museums, ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, illustrating ...

If someone hands you a large, spiral seashell, chances are that your instinct will drive you to hold it up to your ear.

Around 2.3 million years ago, ancient human species such as Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus suddenly changed their diets. Using their large brains, these extinct hominins manufactured digging tools ...

The story of human evolution in Europe has a new character. Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that lived more ...

New analyses have overturned a long-taught chapter of Japanese prehistory: fossils from a Toyohashi quarry once hailed as the ...