In a remarkable discovery that bridges the ancient and modern understanding of human imagination, archaeologists have unearthed a 12,000-year-old clay figurine from northern Israel that represents the ...

Prehistoric art was designed to engage not just the eyes but also the ears, with ancient rock paintings placed in ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what is believed to be the world’s oldest sculpture showing a human interacting with an animal ...

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 ...

Archaeologists working at the Houses of Parliament have discovered evidence that human activity at the site could be older ...

At the Nahal Ein Gev II archeology site, a figurine was discovered to be the earliest item depicting human-animal interaction ...

Deep within El Mirador Cave in northern Spain, researchers have uncovered bone-chilling evidence of human cannibalism dating back around 5,700 years. The hills of Atapuerca in Burgos, Spain, have long ...

The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

Prehistoric cave-dwellers enjoyed munching on tortoises roasted in their shells as an appetizer or side dish, Ran Barkai, an archaeologist at Tel Aviv University, said on Tuesday. Barkai helped lead a ...

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 ...