An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

A 2,800-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a chilling pattern: women and children deliberately targeted, most unrelated to one another, and buried in a ritualized ceremony.

An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen stone tools, highlighting unexpected technological sophistication 500,000 years ...

PARIS – Archaeologists say two students have found a human tooth from about 560,000 years ago in a famous prehistoric cave in southwestern France, the oldest human body part ever discovered in the ...

The burial sites weren’t visible to the human eye, but a suite of technological tools found subtle differences in Czech farmland.

6,000-year-old pottery reveals prehistoric humans cooked gourmet food with plants and fish, offering new insight into ancient ...

One look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey ...

11:46, Sat, Feb 8, 2025 Updated: 11:48, Sat, Feb 8, 2025 A collection of Stone Age relics have unveiled signs of advanced cognitive and symbolic behaviour in prehistoric humans. The new research, ...

Archaeologists have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest prehistoric paintings of animals in Europe. Archaeologists at the University of York have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest ...

An analysis of the victims’ skeletons, carried out by an Edinburgh University scientist, has revealed that 77 individuals, mainly women and children, were slaughtered and then buried - crammed ...

18:48, Tue, Nov 24, 2020 Updated: 21:00, Tue, Nov 24, 2020 New research led by universities in the UK has uncovered evidence linking prehistoric cave paintings in California and a poisonous flower ...