Ancient people in southern Arabia hunted and ate sharks as a main food and nutrition source, new archaeological research from ...

Hidden beneath the bright dunes of White Sands and the dry flats of the Utah desert, ancient human footprints have been ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire—chances are you’d be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological site located in central China. The excavation project at Xigou, led by the ...

Archaeologists have worked at the site since 2020, navigating an arid climate that has preserved very few organic remains.