What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...

At the Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh in Ukraine, archaeologists identified ivory fragments shaped into tools nearly 400,000 ...

Archaeologists in England say a few tiny mineral flecks may rewrite a big chapter in human prehistory. At a site called ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

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

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

New research reveals early humans ate processed plant foods, challenging long-held beliefs behind the Paleo Diet.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...