When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such ...

In a nutshell A mammoth ivory boomerang discovered in a Polish cave is likely between 42,290 and 39,280 years old, making it ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...

Researchers say tugboats could tow huge underwater parachutes around the ocean to manually power a vital ocean current.

A 17,000-year-old infant's DNA reveals Ice Age life, rare genetic heart disease, and ancestral connections in southern Italy ...

Scientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This ...

Neanderthals weren’t mindless brutes; they crafted tools, controlled fire, and buried their dead. For over 300,000 years, they thrived in Ice Age Europe and Asia. But their world changed quickly.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could ...

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometres tall covered much of Europe ...

Around 950 people are estimated to have died in Spain and the UK during June heat waves, according to preliminary data - ...

This is one of the human groups that frequented the Pyrenean Mountains during the period known as the Last Glacial Maximum, or Ice Age. These Homo sapiens – nomadic hunter-gatherers who populated ...