The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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One of which was harnessing the power of fire. However, not many well-preserved fireplaces dating back to the coldest part of the ice age (between 26,500 and 19,000 years ago) remain in Europe.

Arctic ice sheets covered most of Northern Europe and America 20,000 years ago. A new study finds ice ages are cyclical and can be predicted based on the Earth's orbit of the sun.