Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ran Barkai holds a segment of an ancient elephant at the La Polledrara site in Italy. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) Over ...

A remarkably preserved elephant tooth dating back nearly 700,000 years has revealed a surprisingly lush prehistoric world where giant elephants and early humans lived side by side. Discovered in ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague. The findings show zoonotic diseases began spreading around 6,500 years ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University ...

More than three decades ago, a pair of hikers discovered the mummified body of a prehistoric man on an Alpine pass along the border of Italy and Austria. Archaeologists have been obsessed ever since.

In Gabon's sprawling forest, archaeologists dig for ancient clues that could unlock the secrets of how prehistoric humans lived and interacted in the changing landscape of central Africa. Two billion ...

Within a cave in the Pyrenees Mountains, researchers have uncovered evidence that prehistoric humans may have used the site for copper mining; however, further digging has revealed that it may also ...

Exactly when our story began is still up for debate, but consensus agrees that humans first appeared in Africa some 2.3 million years ago with the evolution of Homo habilis from a species of ...

Early humans began using fire to smoke and preserve meat as far back as one million years ago—not primarily for cooking, but to prevent massive elephant and hippo carcasses from rotting and to guard ...

At a fossil site in northern Kenya, certain bones keep turning up the same way — limbs missing from the same spots, surfaces marked with the same cuts, and long bones cracked open in nearly identical ...