A prehistoric human skeleton buried alongside a number of wild animal remains may represent the burial of a "shaman" who died around 12,000 years ago, a study has proposed. The burial was excavated in ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Turkey, uncovering a lost land bridge that could significantly alter our understanding of human migration and European history. This remarkable ...

The tooth of a young girl found in a cave in Laos has been revealed to belong to a group of prehistoric human relatives known as Denisovans, and the discovery is helping researchers better understand ...

In small-group, subsistence living, it makes sense for everyone to do lots of jobs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Prehistoric ...

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species — Homo sapiens — ...

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

A human jawbone found last month on the Iowa River in Marshall County belonged to a "prehistoric Native American," according to the Marshall County Sheriff's Office. At about 4 p.m. Aug. 10, Marshall ...