A prehistoric human skeleton buried alongside a number of wild animal remains may represent the burial of a "shaman" who died around 12,000 years ago, a study has proposed. The burial was excavated in ...

The tooth of a young girl found in a cave in Laos has been revealed to belong to a group of prehistoric human relatives known as Denisovans, and the discovery is helping researchers better understand ...

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

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A vast subterranean cave system in southern France, near Avignon, is rewriting what we thought we knew about prehistoric human exploration. The Saint-Marcel cave network, stretching over 40 miles, ...

A human jawbone found last month on the Iowa River in Marshall County belonged to a "prehistoric Native American," according to the Marshall County Sheriff's Office. At about 4 p.m. Aug. 10, Marshall ...

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

Chinese scientists in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China used 3D technology to reconstruct the face of a prehistoric human who lived 16,000 years ago, according to News China. The ...

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An “emotional and inspiring” archaeological find of Paleolithic tools has revealed a long-lost prehistoric passage that may ...