Ancient seas left an expanse of rolling gypsum dunes known as White Sands in New Mexico, and within this surreal landscape ...

The world's first vehicles were used some 20,000 years ago, scientists now suggest after drag marks were discovered beside ...

Human bones in a German cave place Homo Sapiens in Europe 7,500 years earlier than experts thought. The findings suggest Homo sapiens lived near Neanderthals for millennia, which is a new revelation.

The Stone Age timeline encompasses a huge chunk of human prehistory—and life wasn’t only about hunting and gathering. Because of just how long ago it was, we tend to think there wasn’t a ...

A Quiet Discovery That Shook the Timeline of Human Expansion In 2017, ... Together, the sites form a continental corridor of migration that could reshape the very narrative of human prehistory.

Mummified human remains, particularly those with preserved hair or clothes are the best-case scenario when looking for prehistoric and historic ectoparasites. Although eggs had been identified on both ...

New tests have confirmed that a set of fossilised human footprints in New Mexico are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old, making them the oldest evidence of human life in the Americas.

New data revises the timeline for when our prehistoric relatives started using animal bones. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. Fu Qiaomei at the Institute ...