When Neanderthals dominated Europe, it was likely that wood was at least as important to them as stone for working into tools ...

Archaeologists studying the vast Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia have uncovered surprising truths about Stone Age life. Stone tools, long thought to symbolize male hunters, were actually buried just as ...

Step into the stunning cave that’s reshaping our understanding of prehistoric art.

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A research group led by Johannes Müller at the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, at Kiel University, Germany, have shed light on the lives of people who lived over 5,600 years ...

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometres tall covered much of Europe, Asia and ...

Archaeologists often assume that people buried together in ancient graves were close family. But a new DNA study from a 5,500-year-old burial ground on Gotland complicates that picture. By analyzing ...

Largely missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations played a huge role in the lives of early humans. Researchers are weaving together new insights from the traces they left behind In the ...