Deep inside a German cave, archaeologists have uncovered something extraordinary that challenges everything we thought we ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only in bones, but in the dirt beneath their feet. By treating cave sediments ...

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

Back in 1929, archaeologists unearthed several human skeletons (seven adults and three children) while excavating Skuhl Cave just south of Haifa, Israel. Dating back 140,000 years to the end of the ...

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.