15 of the Oldest Artifacts Ever Discovered

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...
Ancient Origins

150,000-Year-Old Rainforest Discovery Rewrites Early Human History

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

146,000-Year-Old Discovery Rewrites the Story of Human Creativity

A new analysis of crystals that formed inside one of the bones shows that the site dates back to an ice age 146,000 years ago ...
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Scientists have discovered ancient human footprints buried in remote desert sands

Footprints found in White Sands, New Mexico, are challenging everything we thought we knew about the first humans in North America. These prints, preserved in ancient mud, date back over 20,000 years, ...
Al-Monitor

Fossil discovery repositions Morocco at center of human evolution 800,000 years ago

RABAT — A newly announced fossil discovery is further cementing Morocco’s central place in the prehistory of humanity. On Jan. 7, Moroccan and international researchers revealed the unearthing of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Humans May Have Used These Mysterious Symbols to Encode Information Tens of Thousands of Years Before the First Writing Systems

The team analyzed 260 engraved objects discovered in caves in what is now southwest Germany, including this 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine. Universität Tübingen / Hildegard Jensen, CC-BY-SA 4.0 ...
The Conversation

Humans’ closest invertebrate ancestors date back much further than thought – how we discovered the fossils that show this

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...