A remarkable discovery on a remote Swedish island is reshaping what scientists know about early human–wolf relationships and the origins of domestication.

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

Archaeologists find earliest known use of poison-laced weapons by humans - Prehistoric humans had advanced planning abilities ...

The oldest direct evidence of humans using poisoned arrows was in the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago. Bone arrow ...

A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushing back the timeline for poisoned weapons by more than 50,000 years.

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

The exhibition offers visitors in KL a rare chance to study the remains up close and explore Malaysia's prehistoric life ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

(CNN) — Neanderthals had a voracious appetite for meat. They hunted big game and chowed down on woolly mammoth steak as they huddled around a fire. Or so thought many archaeologists who study the ...