The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greeted by European Council President Donald Tusk prior to a meeting at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. Trump Announces Tariffs ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal ...

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than you may realize.

A newly discovered ancient stone with linear engravings at the Coto Correa site in Marbella, Spain. Credit: Marbella’s Delegation of Culture, Education, and Historical Heritage Archaeologists have ...

In a record-breaking discovery, archaeologists have uncovered the 29,000-year-old remains of a young child in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park in Thailand — the oldest human remains ever found in the ...

Damjili figurine found in a cave in Azerbaijan. Credit: Yoshihiro Nishiaki / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 A team of researchers has made a groundbreaking discovery in Azerbaijan, shedding new light on the cultural ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...