Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

Archaeologists in Iran have discovered an ancient cone-shaped skull that is believed to have belonged to a teen girl.

Ancient cave art may have depicted an extinct creature 250 million years before paleontologists even knew it existed.

During the original survey, excavators uncovered a series of four stacked skull caps in one part of the cave. Ritual artifacts recovered alongside the bones — such as obsidian blades and red ...

Even the way the bones were placed within the cave, such as four stacked skull caps in one spot, sparked questions. The experts conclude that the intense injuries, sheer volume of bones ...

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments ... upper jaw of a partial skull belonging to an extinct human species were discovered at the Sima del Elefante cave near the Atapuerca Mountains ...

When the cave was studied three decades ago, archaeologists noticed the human remains had cut marks on the bones made by tools ... Magdalenian culture created skull cups out of the dead, meaning ...