Around 2.5 million years ago, our planet looked very different to how it does now. Not only did woolly mammoths traverse the terrain alongside Stone Age people, our planet was undergoing a series of ...

Researchers have found cannibalized human remains from at least 11 people in El Mirador cave in northern Spain, suggesting it was the site of a violent Neolithic clash 5,600 years ago. When you ...

Archaeology has a new, unlikely interface: conversation. Instead of peering at potsherds in glass cases, players can now walk through a digital Neolithic village in Stone Age Europe and talk directly ...

Five millennia ago, ancient fishers buried a dog alongside a dagger in a lake bed. Archaeologists are trying to figure out why. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown. It has long ...

Sara Watson works for the FIeld Museum of Natural History and Indiana State University The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African foragers, either living or ancient. The earliest evidence of burned human ...