The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years. In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought ...

Ka Do Ha’s Museum displays artifacts from the earliest people in America. Each exhibit features a recording explaining the era and the artifacts. The oldest exhibit features the Paleo period ...

This image shows artifacts made of bony material from a giant sloth discovered at a rock shelter in Brazil and excavated from archaeological layers dated to 25,000 to 27,000 years ago.

HELSINKI, FINLAND—Live Science reports that Kristiina Mannermaa of the University of Helsinki and her colleagues examined tooth and bone artifacts recovered in the 1930s from Yuzhniy Oleniy ...

Sedimentary biomarkers and bone specimens reveal a history of prehistoric occupation on Somerset Island (Arctic Canada). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 2024; 291 (2026 ...

Item 1 of 2 A large projectile point made of gray whale bone from the Duruthy rockshelter, dated between 18,000 and 17,500 years ago, is pictured in Landes, France, March 30, 2021.

Louise Leakey is paleo royalty, descendant of some of the world’s most famous fossil-hunters. Now, walking through the backrooms of the Nairobi National Museum, surrounded by million-year-old ...

These are bones and artifacts from the site. This bone is food remains and includes a piece of moa bone at the bottom left. The top left is part of a dog jaw ...

Known as the Oldowan people, the culture responsible for the bone artifacts was already known for their use of stone tools dating back to 2.5 million years ago.

This image shows artifacts made of bony material from a giant sloth discovered at a rock shelter in Brazil and excavated from archaeological layers dated to 25,000 to 27,000 years ago.