The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material sources suggests a deep understanding of their landscapes. It allowed early ...

Members of the John Carroll Society gathered Jan. 11 to celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord at St. Patrick’s ...

New evidence of cremation 9,500 years ago in south-central Africa challenges long-held notions about how hunter-gatherers ...

“Age is just a number. So don’t take this personally,” the Spotify slide warns, before revealing each user’s calculated listening age. How exactly did Spotify land on that number, though? Marc Hazan, ...

More than 10,000 years ago, a teenage girl in present-day Estonia put a piece of birch tar in her mouth, chewed it, and spit it out. Now, researchers in Estonia are using the unassuming prehistoric ...

If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph ...

Research led by David R. Braun (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) and Dan V. Palcu Rolier (National Institute of Marine Geology and Geo-ecology) Our ancient ancestors weren’t ...

Archaeologists have discovered Oldowan stone tools in three distinct archaeological horizons, spanning approximately 300,000 years (2.75 to 2.44 million years ago), at the site of Namorotukunan, part ...

Stone is “making a comeback” in the building industry after years of being “forgotten”, said the BBC. With clear benefits to the environment, such as a lower carbon footprint than other traditional ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring wildfires, droughts, and dramatic environmental shifts. A study published in Nature ...

For many years, the history of how the First Americans arrived in North America was a little unclear. The general notion was that humans traveled across a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska some ...

Foo Fighters are hitting the road next summer for their newly announced 2026 “Take Cover” stadium tour, with Queens of the Stone Age joining as special guests on most dates. The 12-city run begins ...