Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

The remains of a young woman found at a 2,000-year-old site are believed to show she was killed in a brutal, "theatrical" Iron Age execution ...

Now, groundbreaking research published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage has finally unraveled the chemical mystery behind this extraordinary preservation phenomenon. The teenage boy's remains, ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...