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 ...

The findings upended long-held beliefs about how humans moved through the mountains and challenges long-held assumptions ...

Dr. Ben-Dor adds, "For early humans, fire use was not a given, and at most archaeological sites dated earlier than 400,000 years ago, there is no evidence of the use of fire.

Both populations shrank during the last Ice Age, but only the human-adapted bugs recovered. As humans began to evolve and form permanent settlements around 12,000 years ago, bed bugs found the ...

These Early Humans Lived 300,000 Years Ago—But Had Modern Faces Some modern human traits evolved earlier, and across wider swaths of Africa, than once thought. By Michael Greshko ...

A new study of ancient footprints in New Mexico supports the idea that humans reached North America much earlier than experts ...

The new whale-scavenging study helps show that “Late Paleolithic [Stone Age] humans regularly ... to later than 16,000 years ago. Seashore strandings of whales may have been infrequent, but ...

Humans Humans were crafting tools from whale bones 20,000 years ago. More than 60 ancient tools found in France and Spain have been identified as whale bone, and the evidence shows that people ...

Radiocarbon dating (which determines the age of organic materials) revealed that the oldest bones in the collection date back to around 19,000 to 20,000 years ago, “making it the oldest evidence ...

which may have been cooked and placed as a food offering. The investigations have also shown that the building where the Ice Prince was found was renovated twice in the years after the burial ...

But Neanderthals mysteriously disappeared roughly 40,000 years ago, while Homo sapiens lived on. Today, some humans have traces of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes because the two species ...