A peer-reviewed study published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health has been cited for documenting what its author described as the oldest known human remains on Antarctic soil. The ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. It’s no surprise that humans living during the last Ice Age needed to stay warm. It comes as more of a shock that researchers have fresh examples of ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...

A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 – crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a distinct culture in Europe – bears ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

At several archaeological sites in southern Africa, hundreds of highly unusual fragments of ostrich eggs have been found. Dating back more than 60,000 years, the shells were engraved by groups of Homo ...

Archaeologists discovered 8,000-year-old human remains in an underwater cenote cave in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A figurine called Adorant from Geissenkloesterle Cave, located near the town of Blaubeuren in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, ...

At multiple archaeological sites across southern Africa, researchers have uncovered hundreds of unusual fragments of ostrich ...

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Researchers said the find adds another piece to the emerging picture of early inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula when the landscape was a dry plain with cliffs rather than today’s jungle.