Living beings reduced only to skin and bones through consenting abstinence from food consumption. Asceticism in Christianity ...

Jackson Njau's fascination with human origins started as a curious teen growing up a few hours from one of the most famous ...

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

An international team has unearthed the oldest spear tip ever found in Europe and notes that it was fashioned by Neanderthals ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, an ancient people left their possessions in a cave in the Caucasus Mountains of modern-day Russia. Centuries would pass before the site was found again — and a ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

The Panlongcheng site in Wuhan, Hubei province, after studies of more than half a century, was found to be a significant ...

Archaeologists now have an approximate time frame for when a very old hearth was used in La Veta about an hour southwest of ...