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Why are goats and sheep so different?
Ancient teeth are rewriting the story of our evolution.
12,000-year-old burial reveals a mystery of survival, care, and conflict
Their faces were lost to the world. Now, science has brought them back.
The 5,700-year-old remains bear chilling signs of slaughter and consumption.
You may find it hard to digest, but Neanderthals may have loved their meat rotten, and full of maggots.
Beneath the shifting sands of an Oahu beach, ancient carvings — hidden for years — have suddenly reemerged.
Hidden tattoos show the artistry and skill of the Pazyryk people 2,000 years ago
Early human ancestors may have lived in societies more combative than anything today.
Researchers say it’s the oldest direct evidence of cannibalism in Europe.
What if the Stone Age wasn't really about stone?
Your face stops growing in a way that neanderthals' never did.
Fossil charcoal reveals early humans’ growing impact on the carbon cycle before the Ice Age.
A new facial reconstruction challenges old ideas about Europe’s ancient inhabitants
The story of the boomerang goes back in time even more.
We've had a Denisovan skull for almost a century and never even knew.
Across cultures, both sexes find female faces more attractive—especially women.
A tiny dot on a face-shaped pebble shows that Neanderthals also had the ability to understand abstract art.
Smoking meat may be our human heritage.
A fossil in France rewrites what we know about Neanderthal isolation and extinction
Aztecs weren’t just warriors and priests, they were savvy traders.
A strange embalming technique emerges from the annals of history.
An 80,000-year-old spear point rewrites what we thought we knew about Neanderthals.
Cultural trauma and loss can silence even the most human of traditions.
High in the Peruvian Andes, archaeologists uncovered snuff tubes containing traces of hallucinogens.
Ice Age humans mastered fire with astonishing precision.
Ancient tusk fragments hint at early social learning 400,000 years ago
Cared for like a companion, or killed like prey?
It sounds like a scene from gothic fiction, but it’s real.
Our elusive ancient cousins once roamed much further east than previously believed
Two ancient mummies reveal a mysterious, isolated lineage in North Africa.
A surprising cache of stone tools unearthed in China closely resembles Neanderthal tech from Ice Age Europe.
Early humans may have prized volcanic balls for over a million years.
New study uncovers the silent contributions of women in medieval bookmaking.
That's a whole million years earlier than what we previously thought.
Machine learning is reshaping our understanding of history, one lost word at a time.
These marks found with footprints could be from 22,000-year-old primitive sleds, making them the oldest vehicle tracks.
For thousands of years, Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia. But new research suggests their genetic diversity plummeted in a sudden population collapse 110,000 years ago.
Pale skin didn't dominate Europe until surprisingly recently.
In the 19th century, archaeologists in Poland unearthed a stunning cave filled with prehistoric secrets. The Maszycka Cave, as it’s called, once sheltered Magdalenian people 18,000 years ago. Now, a new study offers compelling evidence that the cave was the site of a grisly ritual — or perhaps something even darker. Did these ancient people […]
Parents in the Ice Age let their kids get away with some pretty wild stuff.
Ice core analysis from Greenland reveals volcanic upheaval that coincides with the creation of mysterious "sunstones" in Denmark.
A groundbreaking study of the Durotriges tribe in Iron Age Britain reveals that women played central roles in their society.
Laser-stimulated fluorescence unveils intricate Chancay tattoos.
Engraved over 20 millennia ago, it intertwines ritual, symbolism, and water management in a stunning display of prehistoric ingenuity.
Wild chimpanzees' tool selection reveals surprising parallels with ancient hominins.
Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the US these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 million years ago, giving birth to twins was the norm.
On a visit to feline-friendly Turkey, an anthropologist considers what long-standing practices of caring for cats reveal about human societies.
Can you imagine a world without numbers? For many people, that's their reality.
New study challenges traditional views on human evolution with "bizarre" findings.
