Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have found the earliest known traces of humans deliberately kindling fire, ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

Researchers have succeeded in reconstructing the skull of an individual from the family of early humans, discovered in ...

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...

The Pahon Cave in Gabon offers archaeologists a well-preserved look into the Late Stone Age time period in central Africa, thanks to the stratified layers of guano-based sediment. This is in contrast ...

The Xinmiaozhuang site has been extensively excavated since 2022. Earlier discoveries at the site include Mousterian-style ...

Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire extended as far away as Britain. Rome didn’t view the region as remote or ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what appears to be the largest Roman industrial complex ever discovered in northern Europe, hidden along the banks of the River Wear near Sunderland, England. The ...

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Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...