More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Could it be that our Paleolithic forebears were more than artists and hunters, that they were also the world’s earliest hydraulic engineers? The finding at the Ségognole 3 rock shelter in France’s ...

Traveling West embodied the United State's 19th century expansionist tendencies. Traveling East might have been an appropriate tendency for early humans living in what is now Europe near the end of ...