Scientists have analyzed amino acids preserved in snail shells to determine a new age for the world's oldest complete wooden ...

It was already getting dark and I sat down to enjoy [the] sunset,” Berghuis said. “And then, right beside me, lay this fossil that reminded me so much of the only Dutch Neanderthal. This is a ...

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

In the Altai Mountains, in southern Siberia, lies the famous Denisova Cave, the only place in the world where the presence of ...

The Lapedo Child was a four-year-old who was discovered in Portugal in 1998 who showed genetic traits from both Neanderthals ...

Archaeologists have uncovered remnants of the Halaf civilization, dating back 7,000 years, in Soran, northeast of the Kurdistan Region.

Everyone loves director Patrick Osborne's hilarious "Three Robots" shorts from Volume 1 and Volume 3, so now he's turned his ...

Every guitarist wants that one musical thumbprint, and Eddie Van Halen knew Jimmy Page captured something different with some ...

An 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This discovery suggests they independently developed sophisticated hunting ...

J. M. Hutson et al., Revised age for Schöningen hunting spears indicates intensification of Neanderthal cooperative behavior ...

An ancient spear tip, buried for 80,000 years, has just turned our understanding of prehistoric technology upside down.

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during what is known as the African Humid Period ... and Northen Africa at the time. The Taforalt people also have half the Neanderthal genes of non-Africans ...