The mystery of a Stone Age teenager's death has been solved — 80 years after he was found in an ancient burial ground in ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

AMD is one of the rarest documented genetic disorders. Only around 10 million people in the world carry the altered NPR2 gene, and of those, just 3,500 are estimated to display the physiological ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA testing has revealed that one of them had a rare genetic condition.

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

Traces of toxic plant compounds have been found on a handful of 60,000-year-old African arrowheads, providing the oldest chemical evidence that Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers used poison to bring down ...

The research team revisited the remains of the richly buried adolescent from Arene Candide Cave in Liguria, northwest Italy, using detailed surface inspection and microscopic assessment of healing.

Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...

Prehistoric art, as revealed by a 70,000-year-old handprint, is now seen as a fundamental human survival strategy rather than ...

Hunter-gatherers in South Africa were coating their stone-tipped arrows with deadly plant toxins at least 60,000 years ago, according to chemical analysis of ancient weapons unearthed from a rock ...