On a windswept bluff above the Ros and Rosava rivers in what is now central Ukraine, ice age hunter-gatherers once built ...

A deer rib pulled from an ancient butchery site in central China carried an unexpected clue. Inside the bone, calcite crystals had grown over time, and those crystals turned out to be a kind of clock.

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans butchered animals. Amidst bones, archaeologists found complex stone tools that ...

Europe's brown bears repeatedly reshaped their jaws during the Ice Age, a flexibility that may have helped them outlast cave ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results from a Virginia Tech-led study provide the first direct ...

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the stone tools were made during a harsh ice age In central China, scientists ...