A new study reveals that Stone Age humans in Germany operated a 'fat factory' to extract nutrients from animal bones.

Archaeological findings reveal Neanderthals operated a 'fat factory' 125,000 years ago in what is now Germany, smashing bones ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

The survey revealed a narrow vertical shaft only 50 centimeters wide, leading to a hidden mortuary cave system. "Through a vertical shaft, only 50 centimeters wide, the looters reached a first level ...

Archaeologists in Denmark recently uncovered 30 Viking graves—a remarkable find on its own. The bigger surprise? The graves ...

Jiaguwen, or oracle-bone inscriptions, that were excavated from the Yinxu Ruins, were records of practicing divination and ...

That’s not all they found. Highway construction resulted in discoveries from multiple eras of history, including the Roman ...

We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues. On average, human males tend ...

Two years after the discovery of a major, long-buried indigenous village on a Brickell redevelopment site prompted a major ...

Reports of looting led archaeologists to explore an easily overlooked cave in northern Mexico. Eventually, the team found several 500-year-old burials in a hard-to-reach chamber of the cave.

This practice has been documented as far back as 28,000 years ago, but has not been confirmed at older sites, making ...