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 ...

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

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our ...

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 ...

Across Egypt, certain artifacts stand apart. 40,000 stone vases carved from hard stone with perfect symmetry. Granite boxes ...

Gary Todd / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a 13,500-year-old human settlement 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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a stone spindle whorl workshop at a prehistoric site in eastern China dating back some 6,000 ...

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

A new study explores whether birch tar, long associated with Neanderthal toolmaking, may have served another purpose as well.