Archaeologists uncovered 15,800-year-old Ice Age artifacts in an ancient human shelter, including stone tools, animal bones, ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began ...

During the coldest part of our ancient history, humans survived by tucking themselves into caves in the central Balkans, showing a resilience previously unknown to researchers and opening a fresh ...

Tens of thousands of years before the first cities rose, Ice Age hunter-gatherers were already building monumental structures, forging trade networks, and gathering for feasts that may have laid the ...

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans ...

Dating rewrites history: Calcite crystals in animal bones revealed Lingjing tools were made 146,000 years ago during a glacial period, not a warm climate phase. Creativity in hardship: Homo juluensis ...

Tiny crystals hidden inside an ancient bone forced scientists to redraw the timeline of a famous Homo juluensis tool site.

“The calcite crystals inside the bone acted like a natural clock, allowing us to refine the age of the site,” Zhao explained. Previously, researchers thought that the tools found in Lingjing were ...

Sets of 12,000-year-old dice found in North America suggests that humans have been gambling since the last Ice Age. Robert Madden It was the Dice Age. An analysis of 12,000-year-old Native American ...

What they had, it turns out, is the oldest intact climate record ever recovered in Western Europe — a continuous chemical ...