The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, ...

Remains found at the Nesher Ramla settlement in Israel reveal that archaic humans hunted wild cattle 120,000 years ago.

The stone walls of Matera do not whisper history—they press it into the air. The scent of damp limestone still clings to cave ...

A story about a “mysterious power plug” turning up in a 100,000‑year‑old cave sounds tailor‑made for viral headlines and late ...

The megalithic site of Gunung Padang in the highlands of western Java was constructed some 2,000 years ago over the course of several generations. Similar stone monuments are found across the ...

Why do people wear clothes, and when did they start doing so? To answer this fundamental question, archaeologist Ian Gilligan of the University of Sydney went back to the beginning. “There’s little ...

More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out ...

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

Researchers from the Center for Paleogenetics have managed to analyze the genome from a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros, ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

This early history of the Maya peoples in Mesoamerica details the art and architecture of the Preclassic period, more than ...

Scientists are looking into the cells of creatures like whales and mole rats to see if they have lessons for humans.