While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has turned traditional thinking on its head by ...

A round face, narrow eyes, relatively full lips and a flat nose: Using 3D technology, scientists in Guangxi, south China, have reconstructed the face ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

Guangxi is an important gateway linking East Asia and Southeast Asia. "The study of the skull fossil from the Yahuai Cave site is helpful in developing our understanding of the physical ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered what could be the oldest known rock carvings made by humans likely over 200,000 years ...

Researchers say this new discovery in Spain could play a major role in understanding the history of humans in Europe ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in south-western France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

Claw marks and signs of burrowing show it was also used by cave bears, prehistoric relatives of the brown bear. Inside their hibernation chambers, researchers have found the remains of six human ...

Until now, the earliest known stone tools date from between 1,500,000 to 100,000 BC, confirming the presence of prehistoric humans in the Marbella region during a period when modern humans began ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie ...