The discovery of ancient human cousins has long stirred wonder and debate. Early Neanderthal remains offered a glimpse into ...

Neanderthals had a taste for fat, and they worked hard to get it. Long before humans built cities or invented writing, these ancient people had already figured out how to extract every bit of ...

A new study finds that Neanderthals likely ate decomposing meat crawling with maggots — and the chemical evidence in their ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

In a Slovenian cave near the Idrijca River, archaeologists unearthed a strange artifact in 1995: a fragment of bone, about the length of a finger, punctured with round holes and charred by ancient ...

Archaeologists from London are visiting Jersey to help catalogue and store hundreds of ice age animal bone from an ancient ...

A number of local officials and university experts held a coordination meeting on Monday to plan the sixth season of ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

Neanderthals had selected the longest bones that would have contained the most marrow, the study found. An AI generated impression of what the fat factory site may have looked like 125,000 years ago.