A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

In 1988, archaeologists uncovered the grave of a Mesolithic woman who lived in Belgium's Meuse Valley 10,500 years ago. At ...

Archaeologists and First Nations communities uncover 693 Ice Age-era stone artifacts in a high-altitude Blue Mountains cave, ...

The question is not only how people survived there, but why, with potentially important answers for understanding ancient ...

The boomerang, found in a cave in southern Poland, may be the oldest in the world, dating back 40,000 years, according to researchers.

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ...

Archaeologists have long puzzled over stone spheroids—round limestone objects found at ancient sites across the globe. These ...

For example, water levels rose more than 300 feet at the end of the Ice Age, flooding the cave system and preserving the remains of extinct megafauna. Humans likely didn't live in the caves, but ...

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...

Yet when Way and colleagues excavated a 3-square-meter (30-square-foot) area of the cave, they found items dating back 20,000 years. This included 693 stone artifacts, as well as some rock art of ...