A new analysis of “il Principe,” an ancient, decorated skeleton found in northwest Italy, confirms that the child died up to three days after being brutally attacked ...

A team of researchers led by an archaeologist at the University of Sydney are the first to suggest that eyed needles were a new technological innovation used to adorn clothing for social and cultural ...

A MYSTERY over the tragic burial of a mauled teen dating back 27,500 has finally been solved – and a giant bear is to blame. The doomed youngster – nicknamed ‘The Prince’ – was laid to ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy ...

The open rings are about 0.75 inches at the widest part of their opening, the researchers said. Justin Garnett and Frederic Sellet A little over a century ago, archaeologists exploring a Paleolithic ...

Firelight transformed how early humans utilized their rocky dwellings. Set of photographs of stone lamp experiment. (Medina-Alcaide et al, 2021, PLOS ONE) (CN) — Long before the Dark Ages, a longer, ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

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A research group led by the Nagoya University Museum and Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Japan has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans ...

The color blue is hard to come by. Unlike red, yellow, and white, which occur readily in mineral form, blue is a rarity. For prehistoric people living in western Eurasia, an area roughly covering ...

A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) has developed a new methodology that allows ...

Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new paper ...