BOLOGNA, Italy — Scientists have discovered what may be one of the oldest boomerangs in the world, hidden in a Polish cave for tens of thousands of years. The mammoth ivory artifact, found alongside ...

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Three newly discovered sites filled with art and stone tools have pushed back the date of when humans returned to Arabia after the last ice age.

Learning to control fire was a game-changer for ancient humans, who could use it to cook food, see at night, and endure cold weather, among other things. This skill dates back at least a million years ...

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A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.

A virtual field trip to the Topper Site, where evidence of ice age humans in SC was found! In the last decade, scientists have made startling discoveries indicating that Ice Age humans were in the ...

Animals that evolved in warm, tropical climes rarely decide to move to cold, snowy ones. Take any creature from the African grassland and drop it in Austria during an Ice Age, and the poor creature ...

The Bering Land Bridge likely didn't emerge until around 35,000 years ago, much later than was previously thought. This ...

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Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Archaeologists believe that Homo sapiens in Europe during the Upper Paleolithic period (between 45,000 and 10,000 years ago) used fire in several different ways. “Fire was not just about keeping warm; ...