A team of researchers led by an archaeologist at the University of Sydney are the first to suggest that eyed needles were a new technological innovation used to adorn clothing for social and cultural ...

Human lifespans have increased significantly over time, but that didn't actually occur until surprisingly recently. Even then ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy ...

Paleoanthropologists Rachel Caspari and Sang-Hee Lee found that the ratio of older-to-younger adults among early modern ...

Humanity's Stone Age ancestors, long thought to have practiced a prehistoric version of the Atkins diet, may have eaten a balanced diet after all. Wear patterns and starch grains found on ...

The findings from the Ghar-e Boof site reveal that the diet of the local hominins included carnivores and tortoises, among others. Credit: N. Conard The findings from the Ghar-e Boof site reveal that ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a set of "truly significant" Stone Age artifacts during an excavation being conducted ahead of planned road improvement in northern England, researchers told Newsweek.

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

A research group led by the Nagoya University Museum and Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Japan has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans ...

Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new paper ...

A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) has developed a new methodology that allows ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought to ...