Archaeologists in Sharjah have unearthed 80,000-year-old stone tools, revealing a continuous human presence in Arabia ...

The boomerang, found in a cave in southern Poland, may be the oldest in the world, dating back 40,000 years, according to researchers.

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

The evidence links human presence to Marine Isotope Stage 5a, a period of dramatic environmental shifts when monsoons from ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

Europe’s earliest known boomerang, carved from mammoth tusk and over 40,000 years old, reveals advanced skills of early Homo ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

At the heart of the discovery lie stone tools — silent, sharp witnesses to a vanished way of life. What sets the inhabitants ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by preservation materials. A new estimate suggests the mammoth-ivory artefact is 40, ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

A mammoth tusk artefact discovered in a Polish cave could be Europe’s earliest example of a boomerang and even the oldest ...