The story of how Earth’s magnetic field once collapsed, solar radiation went wild, and humans adapted with prehistoric ...

Tools from South Africa’s Robberg caves match styles found in Namibia and Lesotho, suggesting early humans shared methods and ...

The region that is now the coast of South Africa was several miles inland, and the caves where the tools were found were ...

A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

Early human communication networks revealed thanks to ancient stone tools and blades located in a South African cave.

A surprising archaeological discovery in southwest China is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about ancient humans ...

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

Digging into the sandy soil of northern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a rusty metal object unlike anything they’d seen before. The item turned out to be a “rare” ancient chariot wheel and a first ...

A nearly complete skeleton found in a cave in France belonged to a group known as the Palaeolithic dogs and its skeleton ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made ...