Archaeologists working in northern Israel have identified a cave on Mount Carmel containing dense layers of Acheulo-Yabrudian ...

Fire leaves behind a simple story when it is fresh. Ash settles, bones blacken, wood chars. Over a million years later, that ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans made it through. Reading time 5 minutes If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

A group of five prehistoric hunter-gatherers, including at least one child, and their dog explored a perilous cave in northern Italy nearly 15,000 years ago, leaving behind footprints that reveal an ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

Modern humans who lived close to the equator were found to be more likely to be able to digest bugs, but this ability ...