When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such ...

Scientists have discovered what may be one of the oldest boomerangs in the world, hidden in a Polish cave for tens of ...

Ice Age sea levels exposed vast plains supporting rich ecosystems and hunters.Knysna Cave reveals continuous human use, tool ...

In a nutshell New independent research confirms that 23,000-year-old human footprints at White Sands National Park are authentic, proving people lived in North America during the peak ice age. The ...

A pair of 14,000-year-old "puppies" found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving ...

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found at the Knysna site—are thought to be replaceable components in composite ...

During the last Ice Age,roughly between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago, the Earth was dramatically different from today. Vast ...

Archaeologists and First Nations communities uncover 693 Ice Age-era stone artifacts in a high-altitude Blue Mountains cave, ...

Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than ...

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...