Researchers used three different methods to date the site, challenging the preexisting notion of the site being between 1.2 ...

When a stone sits on the Earth’s surface, cosmic rays quietly pepper it, leaving behind rare isotopes like tiny time stamps.

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

Ancient humans arrived in East Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier than thought - Findings suggest human ancestors spread across Asia earlier, faster and possibly more successfully than common ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, suggesting that they were not just passive settlers but active fossil hunters.

HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South ...