Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

Mass graves are unfortunately common across ancient locations around the world, with many prehistoric examples dotting present-day Europe. While these burial sites frequently include the remains of ...

In a paper published in PNAS, they reveal not only that these ancient carvings were applied in an intentional, systematic ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...