Located on a plateau overlooking the fertile plains often referred to as the “cradle of civilisation”, the Unesco World ...

Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 ...

An innovative technique used in a study of Neanderthal hearths—places where fires were created—has been described by researchers as a "major" development in archaeology, one that could help shed light ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. In The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession With Human Origins, the intellectual historian Stefanos Geroulanos, ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. Fu Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

In the summer of 1856, laborers at a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf were clearing mud and chert out of a cave when they turned up a fossilized skull. It was long and elliptical, with wide sinuses ...

Over the past two decades, Morocco has witnessed major archaeological breakthroughs that have reshaped international research. Beyond confirming the country as a rich reservoir of prehistoric heritage ...

SPRINGFIELD — Native American human remains from at least two people taken from Springfield and Longmeadow will soon be returned to their ancestral grounds for reburial. But why do museums hold human ...

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs – the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic ...