There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.
The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.
About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...
Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...
A team of archaeologists, paleontologists, and historians from several institutions in Spain, Germany, and Poland, has found ...
Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...
Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...
A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...