New archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that prehistoric hunter-gatherers were far more capable oflong-distance sea travel than previously believed. These findings are reshaping our ...

The story of how Earth’s magnetic field once collapsed, solar radiation went wild, and humans adapted with prehistoric ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

Artefacts unearthed in Yunnan province display key features of toolmaking technology associated with Neanderthals much further west.

But whose hands shaped them? The answer could shake up what’s known about human origins during this period of the Stone Age, according to new research. Archaeologists excavating the Longtan site ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

An “extremely rare” 16,000-year-old canine skeleton from southern France offers evidence that Stone Age humans cared for their pets – although the animal was also probably killed by humans.