New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

The emergence of artistic expression, abstract thought, and symbolic behavior may have occurred much earlier in human history ...

Millions of years ago, giant rhinoceroses roamed the grasslands that stretched from Ukraine to Siberia. One species, ...

Fossils unearthed at a quarry near Swindon are to go on display at a Cirencester museum. The finds, made at the Hills Quarry Products site in Cerney Wick, include a Neanderthal hand axe, mammoth teeth ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

Learn how with painstaking effort, archaeological artists bring back faces from the past.

Skulls from Paleolithic Europe’s Pavlovian people have long been noted for their damaged teeth, with wear patterns evident along their outer surfaces. A new study posits a theory that this ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

Megan Gannon is a science journalist who often writes about archaeology and space. She was previously a news editor at Live Science and Space.com. The nearly mile-long structure allowed ...

Research reveals that cannibalism in ancient Europe was likely a result of warfare, not survival, 18,000 years ago.