The world’s oldest poisoned arrows – dating back 60,000 years – have been identified. The discovery reveals early advanced ...

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

This discovery sheds new light on understanding the lives and hunting practices of ancient people who lived along the coasts ...

New book reveals the untold story of women's crucial role in prehistoric New Mexico gardening, cultivating high-protein foods ...

Traces of plant poison on ancient African arrowheads provide the oldest direct evidence of poisoned weapons. Scientists have ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

As early as 4,500 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, for instance, gender-diverse people held important roles in society with ...

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

A 7,000-year-old grave site in present-day Oman indicates that the region’s Neolithic communities sometimes turned to an ...

The fossilized remains of two sea creatures called goniatites were found in the White Peak - but the National Trust does not ...

The oldest direct evidence of humans using poisoned arrows was in the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago. Bone arrow ...

Broken pieces of prehistoric pottery – known to archeologists as “potsherds” – are striking artifacts. As fragments of ...