A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia.

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

We're a nation of immigrants, and we can modernize our immigration system to strengthen the rule of law and welcome others ...

Melbourne, Jan 22 (The Conversation) When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the ...

Here are six Asian artists redefining contemporary art with powerful narratives, cross-media practices, and growing market ...

Two long-handled shovels twist together like strands of DNA. Drawer pulls take the form of a barber’s scissors and combs. In ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

The story of how humans first entered the Americas is among archaeology’s most persistent puzzles. For much of the 20th ...

England was never as isolated as many history books once suggested. New research shows that people moved into and across England steadily for centuries, arriving from places as distant as the ...