Experts have astounded everyone by bringing back a face from the ancient past. In this stunning recreation, scientists have developed the face of possibly a 10,500-year-old woman from present-day ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wild herbs and other plants appear to have been an important part of hunter-gatherer culinary traditions that emerged during the ...

(CNN) — Researchers studying the remains of a prehistoric woman who lived around 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium have produced a reconstruction of her face using ancient DNA. A team led by ...

Researchers clarify the Hahnöfersand bone's origins, revealing it as a modern human fossil from the Mesolithic period.

Central Germany is among the regions where, as early as the mid-6th millennium BC, farmers displaced the Mesolithic hunter–gatherers from the fertile loess soils. Soon after this migration, however, ...

New research shows that humans left their mark on the landscape through hunting and the use of fire tens of thousands of years before the advent of agriculture. The research paints a new picture of ...

Originally discovered in 1973, the frontal bone was initially thought to be 36,000 years old, an age that coincided perfectly ...

A new method of studying the contents of soil samples has revealed Stone Age people in Sweden were buried in decorated fur-and-feather clothing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

A wrong turn has led a team of Delhi University anthropologists to what may be a prehistoric rock art site in Uttar Pradesh’s ...