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A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

Nearly 250 schoolchildren — some from a girls’ Lego construction team — and 35 adult volunteers helped search for the ...

I ATTENDED a lecture on our prehistoric past and Spanish colonization by Grace Barretto-Tesoro of the University of the ...

Flag Fen Archaeology Park sits in the midst of a unique Bronze Age landscape east of Peterborough, in England. Some 3,500 ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

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The twin lakes, known as Zerelia, in Greece are rare examples of bodies of water that were formed from the cataclysmic impact of a meteorite.

Based on a comprehensive study, researchers are now convinced the shafts were human-made, likely dug during the Late ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...