A new study explores whether birch tar, long associated with Neanderthal toolmaking, may have served another purpose as well.

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.

A petroglyph of the "God of Sun" in the Helan Mountains rock art cluster Photo: Courtesy of the Administration Office of Helan Mountains Rock Art ...

Gary Todd / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a 13,500-year-old human settlement in Saudi Arabia, revealing that ancient communities lived in the deserts of ...

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia uncovered a 13,500-year-old human settlement, revealing sophisticated tools and evidence of ...

If you were a Neanderthal hunter 50,000 years ago, even a small cut could be deadly. Without sterile bandages or antibiotics, ...

By collecting bark from a dead birch tree (left) and processing it in a fire pit (center), Oxford’s Tjaark Siemssen prepared ...

People in North America adopted the bow and arrow as replacement weapons for the dart and atlatl about 1,400 years ago, according to a new paper published in the journal PNAS Nexus. But the adoption ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that a weapon known as the polybolos—or multi-thrower—was used during the Roman conquest ...

The Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile, discovered in the 1970s, revolutionized the thinking about when humans entered the Americas, with scientists calculating decades ​ago that this former ...

Florida hides real-life castles from coral fortresses to pink palaces. These magical spots feel straight out of a fairytale.