A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...

This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

An international research team led by the University of Tübingen and the University of Reading, together with the Senckenberg ...

The Middle Pleistocene was a turning point for human adaptation in East Asia, as shifting climates reshaped landscapes and demanded new survival strategies. By examining sediments, pollen, ...

Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...