A detailed study of bones and tendons overturns assumptions about the mobility of Australia’s extinct mega kangaroos.

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

Archaeologists have identified a 500,000-year-old hammer made from elephant bone as the oldest tool of its kind ever found in Europe. The rare discovery sheds new light on the technological abilities ...

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

When workers near the Spanish town of Villena uncovered a glittering stash of Bronze Age gold in the 1960s, it was quickly ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past ...

A MAJOR mystery surrounding Stonehenge’s origin has finally been solved. For centuries there have been all sorts of theories ...

What began as a study of human population history quickly evolved into a groundbreaking ...

Alberto García Piquer, researcher at the Department of Prehistory, is autor and co-editor of the book The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale ...

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The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about ...

Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years ...