Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five of their dead at Timshenet cave, along with grave goods consisting of animal remains and chunks of red ochre. At the same ...

It’s here in the Levant that the world’s oldest human burials have been discovered, with graves at sites in what is now ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Neanderthals and modern humans overlapped and shared ideas for about 50,000 years in what is ...

Some 100,000 years ago, a group of hominins shared hunting strategies, tool manufacturing tips and how to honor the dead, performing complex and highly symbolic rituals, according to a recent ...

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil ...

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out how to transfer tool-making techniques “from stone to bone” 1.5 ...

Nanoscience and technology is the branch of science that studies systems and manipulates matter on atomic, molecular and supramolecular scales (the nanometre scale). On such a length scale ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be some of the world’s oldest known burials in a prehistoric cave in central Israel. The remains, carefully placed in small graves and coated in red pigment, ...