The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements ...

Researchers find wild chimpanzees prefer plants 2.75 times more flexible, indicating sophisticated understanding of material ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ancient humans processed the mammoths' ivory tusks 25,000 years ago.

A VARIETY of centuries-old artefacts were discovered using a metal detector in a Yorkshire field. The “once-in-a-lifetime” ...

Join an experience of discovery in one of the richest desert excavations ever conducted, illuminating and transforming our historical knowledge of a unique site.

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Researchers say this new discovery in Spain could play a major role in understanding the history of humans in Europe ...

In the forests and farmland of eastern Poland, Grzegorz Wróbl set out on a mission to find fossils. Instead, he found an ancient weapon. Wróbl stopped by the Lublin Provincial Conservator of Monuments ...

A team of archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute has discovered in Langmannersdorf, a town in Lower ...

In the American-Statesman archives we found the previous story on the treasures buried beneath Zilker Park in Austin ...

In the streets of Anyama, children play and braziers smoke on corners. There is little to show that the ground of this ...

If the beginning of farming in peninsular India triggered a unique cultural dynamic that led to the formation of a Megalithic ...