This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Scientists group these dragon stones into three main types: fish-shaped, hide shaped, and hybrid. Fish-shaped stones tend to appear at higher spots near mountain springs, while hide-shaped stones ...

Ancient wolves found on a human-occupied Baltic island reveal unexpected and complex forms of prehistoric human-animal interaction. Researchers have uncovered wolf remains dating back thousands of ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old student, was exploring the woods in Montignac in Dordogne, southern France, when his dog named ...

Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a significant Paleolithic site at an unprecedented altitude of 4,300 meters on the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, offering fresh insights into early human ...

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...

A groundbreaking genetic study has revealed that Italians who reach 100 carry significantly more ancient Western hunter-gatherer DNA than their younger counterparts. The research, published in ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Analysis by Hebrew University researchers shows 8,000-year-old Halafian pottery sherds bearing symmetry and numerical ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.