Twenty-thousand years ago or so, a wounded male mammoth lay down in ancient California savannah and died. About 30 years old, not fully grown, one of its 15-foot-long tusks had been dealt a mighty ...

Denisovans survived and thrived on the high-altitude Tibetan plateau for more than 100,000 years, according to a new study that deepens scientific understanding of the enigmatic ancient humans first ...

Kristina Douglass, an archaeologist at Columbia University, received an $800,000 MacArthur award for her research "investigating how past human societies and environments co-evolved and adapted to ...

An "extraordinary" nose ornament made from human bone was discovered at the site of an ancient Maya city in Mexico. Researchers found the unique artifact during work at the Palenque Archaeological ...

Deep inside a Caribbean cave, paleontologists have uncovered a scene that reads like gothic natural history: tiny bees once ...

A team of archaeologists posit a unique theory about 12,000-year-old bird bones from the Levant, which appear to have been crafted into flutes. Reading time 3 minutes 12,000-year-old bird bones found ...

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Archaeologists working on a site in Mexico found ancient skulls and bones stacked on top of each other, offering a glimpse into the practices of how some funerals might have been carried out in the ...

Bone arrow points from prehistoric Argentina are offering a rare window into how ancient communities organized work, shared knowledge, and managed resources. Far from being improvised tools, these ...