A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal ...

At White Sands National Park in New Mexico, archaeologists identified 20,000-year-old human footprints ... The team began excavating the site four years ago. In 2023, they dated footprints to ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny ...

The most recent period of glaciation, which many people think of as the "Ice Age", was at its height approximately 20,000 years ago. Although the exact causes for ice ages, and the glacial cycles ...

Peter Hilz / Hollandse Hoogte / Redux As you contemplate the likelihood of sea level rise, consider that just 20,000 years ago—a snap of the fingers in geologic time and well within the span of ...