Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

This discovery is a powerful and humbling reminder that people have walked this land for millennia,” said Fayette County Coroner Eddie Richardson.

Archeologists have been aware of the carved faces for years, but the low water levels have unearthed previously unseen specimens. The carvings appear to have been created by indigenous people before ...

Dating of artefacts found at a site in western Ukraine suggests that archaic humans had entered Europe’s eastern gate by 1.4 million years ago. The findings support the theory that these early ...

Antarctica is somewhere archaeologists might be thought to have little business. After all, human beings did not reach it until 1821. Yet a study published in Antiquity by Metin Eren of Kent State ...

Adam Brumm receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Basran Burhan is a researcher at Pusat Kolaborasi Riset Arkeologi Sulawesi (BRIN-Universitas Hasanuddin). Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh ...

A team of researchers claims to have found evidence of prehistoric human settlement in Karnataka's Vijayanagara district, ...

John K. Murray does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...