Fifteen years ago, Berkeley scientist Tim White an...  ...go! Carl Zimmer points out several ways that this prehistoric species tells us new things about the development...

David Derbyshire writes in The Daily Mail that anc...  ...ateur archaeologist Tom Brooks has analyzed 1,500 prehistoric sites and found a pattern: He analysed 1,500 prehistoric sites in England and Wales and was able to connec...

In a cave in the nation of Georgia, American, Israeli, and Georgian scientists discovered the oldest human-worked fibers ever known. The flax remnants date to about 30,000 years ago: Flax was growing wild at the time...

The following is a reprint from Uncle Joh...  ...should dinosaurs have all the fun? Here are a few prehistoric critters that are every bit as bizarre as the str...

A glue formula used by people in South Africa 70,000 years ago required more intelligence than archaeologists normally attribute to Stone Age men. It was made by mixing red ochre with the gum of acacia trees. It turns ou...

Upload a picture, and see yourself turned into an much earlier version of human! From left to right, this is me as an Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Homo heidelbergensis. Oh, and as Homo sa...