Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

At Galleri Urbane, Drea Cofield and Erika Jaeggli explore how humans have depicted themselves and their world, from ancient artists to the digital age.

This 'negative hand,' which researchers have dated to at least 67,800 years ago, is now the oldest known example of cave ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

A group of 6,000-year-old seashells has emerged as the loudest playable sound-producing instruments yet confirmed from ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence erupted in Europe ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Interpreting the symbolic thoughts and actions of prehistoric humans is therefore highly complicated, especially in relation to Neanderthals or other hominins that don’t belong to the same species as ...

Artifacts Found in 57,000-Year-Old Sealed Cave Surprise Archaeologists ...

More than 3,000 artworks from national museums were stowed in chateaus in the Lot—about 350 miles south of Paris ...

The Bhimbetka site, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, captures the continuous presence of human life from the Lower Palaeolithic Age, roughly 100,000 years ago, to the Medieval period.

For 12,400 years, the cave’s arid air preserved two small scraps of elk hide stitched together with twisted fiber. These ...