As the climate got colder 24,000 years ago, Stone Age Europeans turned from hunting mammoths to hunting caribou for their fur ...

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

Hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 km (62 miles ... a University of Malta researcher and co-author of the study, said in a press release. Early Human Settlement Excavations at the cave site ...

Hominids have been using fire for at a million years — but scientists have found that humans were grilling down during the ...

Evidence of one of the earliest human populations known in Scotland has been found ... Stadial), when much of west Scotland ...

A team of archaeologists and scientists led by Karen Hardy discovered stone tools used during the Late Upper Palaeolithic ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact between different groups often drives change.

Early signs of human presence in Australia Seafaring and remote-island occupation by hunter-gatherers is a globally rare phenomenon. Remoteness is a key biogeographical factor that has influenced ...

Seafaring hunter ... hunter-gatherers likely using simple dugout canoes. At the cave site of Latnija in the northern Mellieħa region of Malta, the research team found the traces of humans in ...

Seafaring hunter ... hunter-gatherers likely using simple dugout canoes. At the cave site of Latnija in the northern Mellieħa region of Malta, the research team found the traces of humans in ...

Hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 km of open water to ... islands were considered the last untouched refuges of nature—isolated ecosystems whose human colonization was believed impossible ...