A 1.45-million-year-old shin bone discovered in northern Kenya has revealed a disturbing possibility about human evolution: our ancient relatives may have been eating one another hundreds of thousands ...

If you think archaeologists need actual bones or teeth to uncover the secrets of ancient humans, you may have to check that ...

The work of archeologists involves a daunting task: to determine the places and ways in which our ancient human ancestors lived based on an extremely limited amount of information. While historians ...

The skeletal remains came from the Paracas culture that lived between 750 B.C and A.D. 100. Like many Andean cultures, the Paracas practiced artificial cranial modification, the intentional reshaping ...

The identity of a mysterious artifact found in Devon almost 160 years ago has finally been revealed. New research has identified it as a pendant made from the tooth of a gray seal, which would have ...

A 17- to 18-million-year-old ape fossil discovered in Egypt is challenging long-held beliefs about where the ancestors of ...

Language, more than any other ability or physical trait, is what makes us human. Babies instinctively start to babble at around six months and speak their first words between 12 and 15 months. Yet ...