Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the ...

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

The findings challenge the long-held assumption that prehistoric people didn’t spend much time in high-altitude mountain ...

New research has revealed that the early humans quarried metamorphic rock as far back as 220,000 years ago. A revolutionary ...

British geologist and naturalist William Pengelly identified the object as a badger tooth. Trustees of the Natural History Museum In 1867, British geologist and naturalist William Pengelly found an ...

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

Archaeologists from the University of Southampton have excavated and recorded a large timber platform hidden beneath what ...

Tucson police responded to a wash near Craycroft and River roads after a bone was reported, leading to the discovery of what ...