We tend to think of history as something buried beneath our feet—in ancient caves, deserts, and ruins tucked into ...

This article takes you back in time to learn about early human settlements. We’ll look at places like Jericho and Ur, and how ...

But they may well have, as human instinct ... that Trypillia settlements were abandoned due to the origins of plague in the region, about 5,000 years ago. These early cities, along with those ...

The settlement site, once right in the middle ... Yet the find leaves Hodder and his coworkers with an enigmatic portrait of early human togetherness: a woman lying in her grave, embracing the ...

challenges long-held assumptions and narrows the gap between the settlement timelines of islands throughout the Mediterranean region. Reconstructing early human colonization on Mediterranean ...

That means these early humans not only recognized edible plants ... The site at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov included over 20 layers of ancient settlements. Among them were fossils of animals and ...

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 ...

Early Human Settlement Excavations at the cave site of Latnija by the scientific consortium led by Professor Eleanor Scerri of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA) and the University ...

The findings shed new light on the early human settlement of the Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean Sea—an archipelago that includes Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, which are now all ...

For decades, scientists who studied early modern humans believed that our ancestors initially inhabited only small areas of Africa, the savannas of the eastern and southern part of the continent ...

Archaeologists uncover ancient settlement on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, revealing early human survival and resilience in ...

“In its lower section, evidence shows early human habitation, whereas the upper section presents no signs of permanent human settlement — only traces of animal activity and occasional human ...