The 42-foot chamber has been sealed off for 40,000 years. Researchers have already found bones and scratch marks…
Ongoing research has given us a more nuanced portrait of our extinct relatives, barrel chests and all.
The rare bone carving was unearthed at a cave entrance in northern Germany.
Archaeologists working at a cave site near Rome have found the mineralized remains of nine Neanderthals, in what’s…
Paleoanthropologists have discovered more than 80 fossilized footprints in Southern Spain, on an uneven span of rock…
A genome sequenced from a modern human skull has been dated at approximately 45,000 years old, making it the oldest…
Prehistoric teeth found over 100 years ago are some of the best evidence yet for hybridized communities of…
The origin of the largest stones used to build Stonehenge has been a matter of considerable debate for centuries,…
Humans may have continued to thrive in spite of a supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago, according to a new study.…
Archaeologists have spotted an 8,000-year-old wooden platform in the waters off southern Great Britain.
Archaeologists working in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia have uncovered the earliest evidence to date of human…
If you think your experience with the dentist is scary, just think about how bad the caveman dentist’s office would…
New research on Ötzi the Iceman, an exquisitely preserved 5,300-year-old human found in a European glacier, shows…
Dentists are scary. Even in the most modern medical scenario, it is undeniably horrifying for someone to stick sharp…
Europe has surprisingly little genetic variety. Learning how and when the modern gene-pool came together has been a…
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Archaeologists working at the Alepotrypa Cave in Greece have discovered a rare 5,800-year-old double burial in which…
It's widely acknowledged that modern Europeans mated with Neanderthals at some point in the past. We're just not…
By using an innovative non-invasive photographic technique, European researchers have managed to locate and map the…
Though archaeologists have long suspected that the huge neolithic stones of Stonehenge once formed a complete…
Archeologists studying the remains of early humans in Africa have unveiled a number of ancient artifacts that push…