PARIS – Archaeologists say two students have found a human tooth from about 560,000 years ago in a famous prehistoric cave in southwestern France, the oldest human body part ever discovered in the ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

This report is concerned with the analysis of land boundaries and the social adaptation of community groups in prehistoric times in leeward Hawaii Island. Our aim is to present methods which enable ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past ...

One look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an Iron Age cemetery around an earlier prehistoric burial mound in Germany. The remains were discovered close to the River Weser in the Minden-Lübbecke district of North ...

Archaeologists have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest prehistoric paintings of animals in Europe. Archaeologists at the University of York have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest ...

Archaeologists in Cyprus uncover a curved stone structure, rare engraved figurine and early tools, shedding new light on ...

Over time, as the availability of large game declined, humans had to adapt to hunting smaller animals and using fire more consistently. A groundbreaking study by researchers at Tel Aviv University ...

TVA: built for the people of the United States / Patricia Bernard Ezzell -- In the beginning... / Danny E. Olinger and A. Eric Howard -- The Normandy Archaeological Project / Charles H. Faulkner -- ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a prehistoric chariot wheel ahead of construction on a new golf course in the Scottish Highlands. The "rare" wheel was one of several discoveries found at the site of a ...