Long before Stockton Lake, long before the Sac River was controlled by a dam, people kept returning to the same bend in what is now Cedar County. They came because the place had what they needed. The ...

Excavations in central China uncovered a 5,000-year-old tomb filled with artifacts from the Dawenkou Culture. Was the owner a ...

Hidden in southern Costa Rica, nearly perfect stone spheres carved centuries ago continue to intrigue archaeologists and ...

A 3,000-year-old city in Uzbekistan has been discovered by a joint Chinese-Uzbek archaeological team, shedding new light on ...

The axes were dated to the Pleistocene, likely made by Homo erectus, the first human species to evolve to have a humanlike ...

A University of Wyoming archaeologist is the lead author on a new paper that has potentially upended what we know about the history of humanity in ...

A new study challenges the age of a site in Chile, called Monte Verde, that's crucial to our understanding of how people got ...

The tombs in China were not ordinary and were linked to both royalty and a prehistoric king.

Researchers have recreated birch tar using techniques associated with Neanderthals. Their results suggest material may have ...

This quiet Arkansas museum reveals the deep history of America’s first peoples, offering a moving journey through thousands ...

New study upends theory about how humans got to the Americas - For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human ...