A mammoth tusk boomerang discovered in Poland is approximately 42,000 years old, potentially making it the oldest known ...

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

The detailed reconstruction brings the prehistoric hunter-gatherer to life, revealing an intriguing set of features.

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, indicates that the ...

Five paddlers completed a journey from Taiwan to Yonaguni Island, across some of the world's fastest oceanic currents, ...

In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular ...

It's been Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme's life-long dream to become the first band to (legally) play in the Paris Catacombs. He wasn't going to let emergency surgery ruin a passion ...

Sara Watson works for the FIeld Museum of Natural History and Indiana State University The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In ...