The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

For tens of thousands of years, early humans painted animals on cave walls with incredible realism - but almost never painted themselves. Faces were missing, bodies were simplified, and human ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

When Ohio’s Overfield Tavern Museum went up in flames in December 2024, it created a rare opportunity for archeologists to ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

High on the limestone cliffs of southern Spain, long-abandoned nests built by giant vultures have preserved something unexpected: fragments of human life spanning more than six centuries. In a study ...

Archaeologists have shed new light on the belief systems of early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers after analyzing cremated remains and artifacts given as grave offerings from the earliest recorded human ...

Archaeologists working in the Caucasus Mountains have uncovered a surprising piece of evidence that reshapes our understanding of Neanderthal intelligence and craftsmanship: a carefully carved bone ...

As reported on News Center 7 at 6:00, thousands of artifacts have been found buried under and around the building. “We knew that this was an intact site and that if we were going to do major ground ...

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...