A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans ...

I n a recent study about ancient ancestors, archaeologists elaborated on the earliest evidence of indigo dyeing, showing that ...

A 15,000 year old piece of a whale vertebra from the Basque site of Santa Catalina, Spain. © Jean-Marc Pétillon, Eduardo Berganza Whale bones retrieved from ...

Nestled along the northern shore of Lake Burtnieks in northern Latvia, Stone Age communities used the Zvejnieki burial site ...

Artifacts are from archeological sites in France and Spain The tools were mainly for hunting, like projectile points Tools were made from bones of at least five whale species May 28 (Reuters) - ...

For a quarter of a century, the scientific community was convinced that the paintings at Altamira Cave were nothing but ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority has launched a new database holding over three million historically significant records. The ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

The excavation of an ancient burial in northern Latvia dating back over 5,000 years challenges long-held assumptions about ...

(CNN) — The story of human evolution in Europe has a new character. Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that ...

Large projectile point made of Gray Whale bone from the Duruthy rockshelter, Landes, France, dated between 18,000 and 17,500 years ago. CREDIT: Alexandre Lefebvre. Get the Popular Science daily ...