Ancient innovation revealed: Stone tools from 146,000 years ago show Ice Age humans in China adapted creatively to extreme cold. Dating rewrites history: Calcite crystals in animal bones pushed the ...

Researchers at the University of Bern have for the first time been able to pin down a prehistoric settlement of early farmers in northern Greece dating back more than 7,000 years to the year. For this ...

Complex prehistoric tools unearthed at an archaeological site in central China are upending long-standing assumptions about human evolution, scientists claim in a new study. Excavations at the Xigou ...

This piece comes from Our Human Story, a newsletter dedicated to the latest breakthroughs in archaeology and human evolution. If you’ve ever read about human evolution, you’ve probably noticed how ...