Pyrenean glaciers like the Pico Viñamala (pictured), are the last remaining traces of the frozen masses formed during the Ice Age. Pascale Bourget/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA A fine mist accompanies ...

A fine mist accompanies the clan as the sun rises and they begin their journey. There are 12 people in total, some of them adults, some children, and others so small that they have to travel on the ...

The Ice Age ended, the mammoths vanished, and Homo sapiens remained. In the Mesolithic, humans reshaped their world with tools, fire, and mobility—but the archaeological trail is thin ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet’s last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would have ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones ...

Most animals retreated to small, warmer enclaves. But some, like humans, seemed to have stayed where they were. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists’ ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

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