Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

BBC News reports that deeper analysis of the object revealed that the strange mark was actually a Neanderthal fingerprint, ...

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a 43,000-year-old pebble bearing a Neanderthal fingerprint, potentially the oldest ...

S cientists unearthed a granite pebble bearing the world's oldest known human fingerprint, left by a Neanderthal ...

A study of prehistoric bone tools from the Bay of Biscay revealed that they were 20,000 years old, the oldest known example ...

Technological advancements in the past decade have now made it possible to date the oldest of the tools to about 20,000 years ...

"It's a place that has been known and used by indigenous people for tens of thousands of years, probably, back maybe 18,000 ...

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or ...

Naturally, any debate over bipedalism is just one part of a larger and still more intriguing question; is Sahelanthropus really the oldest known member of our human lineage? Some scientists don ...

“Humans had already migrated across the African ... must have been when they were dropped in the caves. This technique, known as thermoluminescence, told them that the tools were roughly 280,000 ...

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in Western Europe.

What may be the earliest-known human ancestor, an ape-man called Sahelanthropus tchadensis who lived in Africa roughly 7 million years ago, walked upright for much of the time, according to a new ...