A metal detectorist discovered ancient gold coins in the Netherlands that turned out to be a cult ritual offering.
Blue residue on a 13,000-year-old stone artifact, long believed to be an oil lamp, may paint a new picture of Paleolithic art and culture ...
For the first time, archaeologists have identified the remarkable meaning behind 12,000-year-old rock art found in Saudi Arabia's Nefud desert.
A global collaboration led by Sharjah has established the Faya Palaeolandscape as a cornerstone in the study of early human ...
A nimal life is a recent addition to Earth, relatively speaking. The planet formed about 4.5 billion years ago, with ...
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Early humans living in South America hunted and ate megafauna such as giant sloths which have since gone extinct, a new study has revealed. Detailed analysis of archaeological evidence showed that ...
What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such ...