(Reuters) -Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, ...

A dugout canoe is pictured before departure on a crossing across a region of the East China Sea to Yonaguni Island (Reuters) -Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting sites and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, ...

To date, the winter solstice is celebrated at the ancient site of Newgrange in Ireland, according to The Irish Times. After seventeen minutes of the sunrise, direct sunlight enters the monument ...

On Wednesday, March 1, historians Brian and Joyce Ostberg will present "The Secrets of the St. Charles Indian Mounds," a multimedia examination of the customs and culture of the prehistoric people who ...

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Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

Millennia ago, when ancient people did not know what toothbrushes were, food particles and microbes clung stubbornly to their teeth. These plaques mineralized over time to form crusty, hard tartar.

Paleolithic human populations survived even in the coldest and driest upland parts of Spain, according to a new study. Paleolithic human populations survived even in the coldest and driest upland ...

A pioneering study in experimental archaeology has revealed the techniques used by prehistoric communities in north-eastern Europe to extract animal teeth for crafting personal ornaments—offering ...

(Reuters) -Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most remote places. In doing so, our ancestors surmounted geographic ...