Early people not only came out of Africa, but much later, some returned to it by boat across the Mediterranean, possibly from ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

The site had an unusually high abundance of fish compared to other Stone Age sites, suggesting that people captured more fish as waterholes shrank during the dry season. “People start to ...

Dr. Thiry's earlier research, following his first visit to the site in 2017, established that Paleolithic people had "worked" the sandstone in a way that mirrored the female form, and opened ...

Modern Japanese appear to be genetically descended from the Paleolithic Minatogawa people, according to DNA analysis of human remains in Okinawa Prefecture dating from 20,000 years ago. According ...

Prior work suggested that during the mid-Middle Paleolithic (80,000 to 130,000 years ago), the southern Levant was home to at least three different groups of Homo: modern humans, Neanderthals and ...

Nicknamed the “Red Lady” due to her ochre-coated bones, she was a member of the Magdalenian people of the late Upper Paleolithic—people not so unlike us. “The results show that several ...

New discoveries in Southeast Asia suggest that early humans mastered the art of seafaring and deep-sea fishing 40,000 years ago.

Stone Age peoples may also have sliced animal hides ... style of stone spear point and to the culture of the North American people who used such weapons to devastating effect against large game.

URUMA, Okinawa Prefecture--Human remains dating to as far back as 10,000 years ago that were unearthed in a cave here could prove to be the missing link between early Paleolithic people and later ...