Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The world’s oldest known cave art shows how early humans crossed oceans, offering rare insight into ancient migration routes.

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece.

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

The dig at Harden Quarry has uncovered three burial cairns, which archaeologists say gives a "new timeline for human activity in The Cheviots" ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

Zircon crystals show glaciers never reached Stonehenge, pointing to deliberate human transport. New research from Curtin University has delivered the strongest scientific evidence yet that people, not ...

Discoveries at a controversial southeastern archaeological site could potentially push back the timelines for human arrival ...

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