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Part of a man’s skeleton found lying in the lagoon. The skull has multiple lesions on the front and left side consistent with wounds from...

Ötzi the Iceman on a sheet-covered autopsy table. Wikipedia Discovery News : Oetzi the Iceman Has World's Oldest Tattoos Oetzi, the ...

BBC : Ancient DNA sheds light on Irish origins Scientists have sequenced the first ancient human genomes from Ireland, shedding light ...

The leg of the early modern human from Tianyuan Cave was used for the genetic analysis as well as for carbon dating. (Credit: MPI for Evo...

a) Wooden poison applicator from Border Cave made from Flueggea virosa dated to 24,564 - 23,941 years, with close-up showing notches, and b)...

A high-tech dental analysis of a 2-million-year-old hominid from South Africa involving CU-Boulder researchers indicates it had a unique die...

Art on the ceiling of the shelter Narwala Gabarnmang. Credit: University of Southern Queensland Aboriginal Rock Art Is 28,000 Years Old -- C...

A look inside the Altamira Cave in northern Spain Red Dot Becomes 'Oldest Cave Art' -- BBC Red dots, hand stencils and animal figure...

In El Castillo cave, hand stencils join a red disk (not pictured) that may be Earth's oldest cave art. Photograph courtesy Pedro Saura v...

Catching fish is a practice that goes back thousands of years World's 'Oldest Fish Trap' Found Off Coast Of Sweden -- BBC Wooden...

Neanderthal man: The key factor which separated man from our evolutionary rivals 100,000 years ago may not have been language - but instead ...

Looks like our earliest ancestors enjoyed music, too 42,000-Year-Old Mammoth Ivory And Bird Bone Flutes Are Oldest Instruments Ever Found --...

Analysis of grave sites across central Europe found that 7,000 years ago, in the early Neolithic era, some farmers had better land and bette...

Jewelry. Geißenklösterle Cave is one of several caves in the Swabian Jura that have produced important examples of personal ornaments, figur...

The Young Man of Chan Hol II skeleton was laid to rest 10,000 years ago when sea levels were much lower (Image: Eugenio Acevez/Instituto Nac...

Rock art in Wonderwerk cave 40km from Kuruman Northern Cape South Africa: Ash found in a layer dated at a million years old hints that inhab...

The MIT software looks for signs of ancient settlements including earth disturbed by collapsing mud huts, and lighter areas of earth created...

A view of a skull from the Red Deer Cave People. Researchers found the species had unique features seen neither in modern nor known archaic ...

Source: Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley. The Washington Post. An established theory says the first Americans walked across the Bering Sea ...