New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to encounter humans. However, a cave site known as Latnija in Malta’s northern ...

The archaeological discovery that places humans in the Pyrenees during the Ice Age - ANALYSIS: Human presence in ...

A major African conservation charity has acknowledged its rangers were involved in rights violations reportedly including rape and torture against indigenous people at a national park in the Republic ...

A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism ...

Although the archaeological record confirms that hunter-gatherers in Europe built fires throughout the Upper Paleolithic period (45,000 to 10,000 years ago), there is a roughly 7,500-year gap that ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the most recent ice age built different types of hearths. Wood served as their ...