The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

Chemical clues in ancient bones reveal how diet, especially millet consumption, helped define social identity in Bronze Age Poland.

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A representation of a Carthaginian battle elephant during the Second Punic War. - Prisma/Universal Images Group/Getty Images ...

An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen stone tools, highlighting unexpected technological sophistication 500,000 years ...

Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has ...

New evidence from Neolithic mass graves in northeastern France suggests that some of Europe’s earliest violent encounters were not random acts of brutality, but carefully staged displays of power. By ...

More than 12,000 years ago, two closely-related women – a mother and her daughter, perhaps – were buried in an eternal embrace. This Ice Age pair of hunter-gatherers were both shorter than average for ...