Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ran Barkai holds a segment of an ancient elephant at the La Polledrara site in Italy. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) Over ...

Uncover 25 ancient human discoveries that challenge our understanding of early man. See how new fossils and DNA finds are ...

Turns out, early humans preferred smoked meat to cooked meat. Or they might have, according to a new theory from researchers at Tel Aviv University. Published in a paper in Frontiers in Nutrition, the ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University ...

More than three decades ago, a pair of hikers discovered the mummified body of a prehistoric man on an Alpine pass along the border of Italy and Austria. Archaeologists have been obsessed ever since.

Long before houses, mattresses, and woven fabrics became part of daily life, humans were already creating dedicated places to sleep. Deep inside a South African cave, traces of ancient grass bedding ...

In Gabon's sprawling forest, archaeologists dig for ancient clues that could unlock the secrets of how prehistoric humans lived and interacted in the changing landscape of central Africa. Two billion ...

Within a cave in the Pyrenees Mountains, researchers have uncovered evidence that prehistoric humans may have used the site for copper mining; however, further digging has revealed that it may also ...

Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly 500,000 years ago. The extraordinary find reveals that ancient toolmakers were ...

The evidence shows that early hominins returned to the same area again and again between 2.75 and 2.44 million years ago. (CREDIT: Wix) Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing ...