Archaeology and paleontology are filled with discoveries that solve one mystery while creating several more. One of the most puzzling finds involved ancient human remains discovered inside a cave ...

Along the ancient banks of a river in what is now northern Israel, scientists have uncovered surprising details about the diets of early humans. The discovery challenges a long-standing belief—that ...

The main sources of ignition before humans appeared were lightning strikes. Our evidence of fire in the fossil record (in deep time, as we often refer to the long geological stretch of time before ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...