Archaeology has a new, unlikely interface: conversation. Instead of peering at potsherds in glass cases, players can now walk ...

Scientists are combining anthropology with cutting-edge AI to create an educational video game about life in Stone Age Europe.

Archaeologists in Turkey have found a 12,000-year-old stone pillar with a carved human face—the oldest known example of self-expression and artistry.

While life emerged around 4 billion years ago, human history—from the earliest humans approximately 2.5 million years ago to the present day—represents a relatively short period in the scale of ...

The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...

Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don’t use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone ...

Deep underground, thousands of years of silence are abruptly broken by a researcher singing. His voice seems to awaken the walls of the cavern as the intimate space comes alive with the sound of our ...

Stone is “making a comeback” in the building industry after years of being “forgotten”, said the BBC. With clear benefits to the environment, such as a lower carbon footprint than other traditional ...

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Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Marbella, Spain, unearthing a stone with ancient engravings on its face that could rewrite the history of prehistoric art. The find suggests that ...

The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office announced the charges against the children on Wednesday Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019. His work has previously ...

A recent study has revealed new insights into Stone Age life and death, showing that stone tools were just as likely to be buried with women and children as with men. Breaking millennia-old ...