During the coldest part of our ancient history, humans survived by tucking themselves into caves in the central Balkans, showing a resilience previously unknown to researchers and opening a fresh ...

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began ...

Archaeologists uncovered 15,800-year-old Ice Age artifacts in an ancient human shelter, including stone tools, animal bones, ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

“The calcite crystals inside the bone acted like a natural clock, allowing us to refine the age of the site,” Zhao explained. Previously, researchers thought that the tools found in Lingjing were ...

Ice Age tools dating back 146,000 years, discovered in an ancient Chinese cave, reveal surprising human adaptations to a ...

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, happened around 15,200 years ago—nearly 500 years earlier than previous ...

Tiny crystals hidden inside an ancient bone forced scientists to redraw the timeline of a famous Homo juluensis tool site.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been ...

Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been occupying these caves in the Balkans at a time when other ...