In 2024 an international team announced the discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi from at least 51,200 years ago, predating ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

The ancient boomerang wasn't found alone; it lay alongside a human phalanx—a small bone from either a finger or a toe.

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

Here’s our pick of the best Australian road trips. The criteria are simple and selfish: at least 1000km, zero EV charging ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by preservation materials. A new estimate suggests the mammoth-ivory artefact is 40, ...

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in ...

The Venus of Kołobrzeg, discovered by a Polish farmer on the Baltic coast in 2022, has been authenticated as a Neolithic ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

The detailed reconstruction brings the prehistoric hunter-gatherer to life, revealing an intriguing set of features.

A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.