Neanderthals inhabited western Eurasia from about 400,000 years ago until their extinction about 40,000 years ago and have often been caricatured as the archetypal "cavemen". Questions about their ...

What scientists uncovered about its creators could upend everything we thought we knew about prehistoric life—and it’s ...

Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...

A study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has, for the first time, quantified the profitability of gold ...

Experts said the discovery was “ground breaking” with new testing transforming understandings of the city’s medieval ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

Isotope and trace element analyses of human tissues provide archaeologists with unique opportunities to make unprecedented ...

Carvings uncovered in the Canadian Arctic may be the earliest portraits of the Vikings created in the Americas. But archaeologists have been puzzling over whether the artwork really shows the infamous ...

The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her ...

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 ...