If someone hands you a large, spiral seashell, chances are that your instinct will drive you to hold it up to your ear.
Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.
At the Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh in Ukraine, archaeologists identified ivory fragments shaped into tools nearly 400,000 ...
From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...
Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient humans ...
Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.
New research reveals early humans ate processed plant foods, challenging long-held beliefs behind the Paleo Diet.
During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...
In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...
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 ...
Sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, drowning vast portions of Australia’s ancient landscape. Recent underwater ...
A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...