Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

A set of Stone Age artifacts have revealed evidence of advanced cognitive and symbolic behavior among prehistoric humans, a study reports. In the study, published in the journal Archaeological and ...

Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific Ocean’s powerful Kuroshio currents. But how exactly did they manage to complete ...

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Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague. The findings show zoonotic diseases began spreading around 6,500 years ...

Maszycka Cave in southern Poland, where archaeologists unearthed 18,000-year-old bones that show evidence of human manipulation Darek Bobak Archaeologists in Poland have discovered widespread evidence ...

Venus figurines are most famous for their sexual features. These often-voluptuous carvings of female forms, made between around 30,000 and 20,000 years ago, have been interpreted as ritual fertility ...