A piece of human skull found along the Whitewater River in Fayette County is approximately 4,270 years old, dating back to ...

Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing ...

Discovered in modern-day Turkey at the Karahantepe site, it could be the first-ever carved depiction of a human face.

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

Skeletal remains of "Zimapán man" found with gut bacteria revealing lost microbes and healthier, natural diets before modern ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their ...

Ian Towle & Luca Fiorenza/The Conversation For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or ...

Some even hailed them as evidence of the “oldest human habit related to oral hygiene.” They have been documented throughout ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian counterparts, new research has found.