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.

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 ...

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

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.

A group of anthropologists’ new analysis offers powerful evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis—a species discovered in the early 2000s—was indeed bipedal by uncovering a feature found only in ...

The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids. Sahelanthropus tchadensis was first discovered in 2002, ...

Hidden away in an obscure notice in a federal register is a throwaway line that could rewrite human history. It states that San José State University holds human remains of an Ice Age individual from ...