As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...

A new study on Neanderthals reveals the startling discovery of a group that lived in complete isolation for 50,000 years, ...

Pixar fixture Andrew Stanton’s gleaming look at humanity's past, present and future adapts a Black List screenplay by Colby ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

Newly discovered rock art sites in Sulawesi, Indonesia, that date to nearly 68,000 years ago are thought to be the oldest ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

The stencil, which had remained largely unnoticed amidst more recent paintings of animals and figures, is now the oldest artwork ever discovered. In fact, it is so old that it offers a rare glimpse ...

Found in southern Greece, the stick was one of two wooden artifacts that appear to have been shaped intentionally, according ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

Discovered in southern England in the mid-1990s, the artifact may have been made by Neanderthals or Homo heidelbergensis, according to a new study ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...