Ancient grass bedding found in a South African cave shows early humans cared for sleeping areas. These hunter-gatherers ...

Stratified rock layers inside a cave in southern Turkiye have produced the strongest direct evidence to date that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ran Barkai holds a segment of an ancient elephant at the La Polledrara site in Italy. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) Over ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University ...

The 7,000-year-old fish traps represent the first known evidence that humans were responsible for an unlikely population of ...

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 of ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Culturesat Tel Aviv University ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans made it through. Reading time 5 minutes If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A study of 780,000-year-old food remains has shed light on the diets of ...

New research suggests early humans hunted and ate mammoths, as well as elk and bison, to a lower degree. Leonello Calvetti / Science Photo Library via Getty Images When Earth was frozen over during ...