(Reuters) -Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, ...

A massive archaeological discovery in County Wicklow suggests that ancient Irish people lived in dense urban prehistoric ...

A dugout canoe is pictured before departure on a crossing across a region of the East China Sea to Yonaguni Island (Reuters) -Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked ...

A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.

Researchers at the University of Helsinki performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting sites and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, ...

On Wednesday, March 1, historians Brian and Joyce Ostberg will present "The Secrets of the St. Charles Indian Mounds," a multimedia examination of the customs and culture of the prehistoric people who ...

To date, the winter solstice is celebrated at the ancient site of Newgrange in Ireland, according to The Irish Times. After seventeen minutes of the sunrise, direct sunlight enters the monument ...

Paleolithic human populations survived even in the coldest and driest upland parts of Spain, according to a new study. Paleolithic human populations survived even in the coldest and driest upland ...

(Reuters) -Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most remote places. In doing so, our ancestors surmounted geographic ...