Scientists say 15,000-year-old engravings prove humans reached the Emerald Isle far earlier than thought via a lost land ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During ice ages, ice sheets like the one in Greenland have covered much of Earth's surface. Thor Wegner/DeFodi Images via Getty ...

Ice Age humans were using mind-altering drugs 25,000 years ago. A study of ancient skeletons from the Indonesian island of ...

The Ice Age is often pictured as endless snow, advancing glaciers, and struggling creatures—and it is easy to assume Greece ...

A new study on ancient human remains finds evidence for the habitual use of betel nuts, dating back to the Ice Age. The finding offers some of the oldest archaeological evidence of psychoactive drug ...

A team of Griffith University archaeologists has uncovered evidence that humans were using mind-altering substances much ...

Learn how sophisticated Ice Age stone tools from China revealed advanced butchering techniques, careful planning, and unexpected creativity among ancient humans. The Ice Age was not supposed to be a ...

Learn how bone dice from Ice Age sites in the American West are pushing the origins of gambling back by more than 6,000 years. At the end of the last Ice Age, on the open plains of the American West, ...

During the coldest part of our ancient history, humans survived by tucking themselves into caves in the central Balkans, showing a resilience previously unknown to researchers and opening a fresh ...