More than 40 years of scholarly life have accustomed 64-year-old Chinese archaeologist Li Zhanyang to documenting his career ...

The prevalence of seagrass throughout human civilisation has fostered spiritual and cultural relations with these underwater ...

Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any ...

“If we look specifically at head hair, we can see that it is styled,” Berman wrote. “The most famous Venus figurine, the ...

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

Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date back about 120,000 years. But a new study, published in the International ...

Similarities in fabrication techniques suggest that Paleolithic people passed on their methods - and may have shared them ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

The most obvious possibility is that Neanderthals themselves reached China. Neanderthals are well documented in Europe, going ...