An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

A 2,800-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a chilling pattern: women and children deliberately targeted, most unrelated to one another, and buried in a ritualized ceremony.

PARIS – Archaeologists say two students have found a human tooth from about 560,000 years ago in a famous prehistoric cave in southwestern France, the oldest human body part ever discovered in the ...

PREHISTORIC archæology, being one of the younger among the sciences, has had few opportunities of celebrating centenaries. It is a little more than a hundred years ago that the excavation of Kent's ...

Archaeologists working in the rugged Negev Desert in Southern Israel have made an exciting discovery among the Nitzana dunes. This region lines the Israeli-Egyptian border and continues yielding ...

A new study from the Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University found that the extinction of large prey, upon which human nutrition had been based, compelled prehistoric humans to develop ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a cave dwelling that was constructed around 16,800 years ago by prehistoric humans. The dwelling was found in the La Garma cave complex in the autonomous ...

An international team of archaeologists and scientists reconstructed prehistoric diets in north-central Poland using ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A monumental archaeological discovery in northern China is reshaping what we know about early human settlement and society. Near ...

The site of a major prehistoric archaeological discovery in Miami’s Brickell district is extensive and significant enough to merit protection from development under local laws, according to a new ...

An analysis of the victims’ skeletons, carried out by an Edinburgh University scientist, has revealed that 77 individuals, mainly women and children, were slaughtered and then buried - crammed ...

Karnataka's State Archaeology Department is making prehistoric heritage accessible through bilingual digital content and ...