Archaeologists have long known that modern humans and our close relatives trekked through the so-called Inner Asian Mountain ...

Researchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 150,000-year-old shelter in Tajikistan, offering new insights into human evolution.

The two species began burying their dead at roughly the same time and place. Now some archaeologists think competition may have played a role in burials.

Ship-shaped graves have been identified at the site, which came to light during investigations of an earlier Stone Age ...

Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The bubonic and septicemic forms — mainly infecting the lymph nodes and ...

Dubbed the "Ice Maiden" and "Juanita" by researchers, the life-like reconstruction contains real human hair ... of a Bronze Age woman buried in a crouched position inside a stone-lined grave.

It was supposed to be a routine Stone Age settlement excavation to clear a path for a new roundabout and water pipes near Tvååker in southern Sweden. It turned into so much more, as archaeologists ...

Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age ...

They show animals as well as some human hunters. Some historians believe that Stone Age paintings had a religious meaning. They think the painted animals were meant to represent powerful spirits.

Advanced analysis of prehistoric cave art has revealed new insights into the fishing practices of Paleolithic societies.

Nearly 16,000-year-old portrayals of fish surrounded by nets had evaded detection until a new technique took magnification to a new level.