Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...

The peopling of South America has long been debated, with various routes proposed for how they spread across the subcontinent ...

A 10,800-year-old burial in Patagonia sheds light on human settlement along the Atlantic coast, challenging long-held ...

Archaeologists found 120,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

The Xianrendong site, or "Immortal's Cave", located about 800 kilometers south of Beijing, was first discovered in 2020.

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

A study reveals evidence of prehistoric surgery in Borneo, where a young adult survived a leg amputation about 31,000 years ...

The site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov (GBY), along the ancient shores of Lake Hula in northern Israel, represents an ...

Archaeology rarely changes overnight. Most discoveries are small. Incremental. Easy to overlook. But sometimes… everything shifts. In 2025, a series of discoveries began to challenge long-held ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier than some recent theories suggested. By tracing maternal DNA lineages, the ...

It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...