Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

Sketches on a stone unearthed in Marbella, Spain, are believed to be 200,000 years old, providing insight into settlers ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered what could be the oldest known rock carvings made by humans likely over 200,000 years old – a find that could transform our understanding of human presence in ...

A recently analyzed submerged stone bridge inside Genovesa Cave on the Spanish island of Mallorca suggests that humans settled on the island nearly 6,000 years ago—much earlier than previously ...

They also tend to experience age-related cognitive decline at slower rates. Scientists have many theories as to why this may be. Now, a new study takes a deeper look, aiming to explain why women ...

Writing goes back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology and archaeology ...

Archaeologists uncover ancient petroglyphs in Kuno National Park, dating back 10,000-50,000 years, shedding light on early civilizations ...

Credit: Ayuntamiento de Marbella Second, the stone with human-made graphic representations could predate the oldest known cave art by more than 100,000 years, making it one of the earliest known ...

Some movies are about history, but others deal with matters that predate history. There’s something fascinating about prehistoric times, and it gets even more intriguing when you bring those ...

In a Red Hand Files missive, the Bad Seeds leader explains how he and Flea have become friendly since the diss — and how they even have a new collaboration in the works ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.