Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial ground in England, is older than Stonehenge, a new radiocarbon-dating study finds.

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

The researchers unearthed 427 artefacts, including stone tools and the first ochre pieces- the red-coloured rock used in ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so ...

Sharjah’s Faya Palaeolandscape, recently nominated for UNESCO World Heritage status, presents compelling evidence of human resilience and adaptation spanning over 210,000 years, while also serving as ...

Distantly related to woolly mammoths, Columbian mammoths populated the warmer areas of the American continent during the Ice Age. Bones from the massive creatures ... that faced those huge tusks with ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...

Bones form an integral support system for the body, providing structure, protecting essential organs and facilitating movement. With an increase in age generally comes a decrease in bone density.

The fossils — which may date back to 1.4 million years — were nicknamed “Pink” in honor of iconic rock band Pink Floyd.