A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

Learn more about the oldest rock art on record, a stencil of a human hand in Indonesia, which reveals important insights into ...

When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

The story of how humans first entered the Americas is among archaeology’s most persistent puzzles. For much of the 20th ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

The history of how humans migrated out of Africa was investigated by archaeologists to trace the origins of our ancestors. In an attempt to track the paths they traveled on, experts found the ‘hidden’ ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

This combination of 2007, 2018 and 2012 photos shows, from left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, ...

England was never as isolated as many history books once suggested. New research shows that people moved into and across England steadily for centuries, arriving from places as distant as the ...

WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age.