Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

Researchers identified chemical traces of poison on 60,000-year-old arrowheads, meaning the artifacts bear the oldest known evidence of arrow poison.

The 2-million-year-old partial skeleton may even represent the oldest example of H. habilis discovered so far. It includes a ...

Historic Rangeley is highlighting the Vail Site exhibit, which documents the earliest known human presence in western Maine ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

During archaeological excavations in Gela, southern Sicily, experts uncovered an extremely rare ceramist’s stylus, a tool ...

A tiny bird figurine discovered in a refuse heap in the Henan province of China is changing what historians thought they knew ...