New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of years before agriculture emerged. According to the study’s co-authors, the ...

Possible factors in the extinction of many large animals include include hunting and climate stability since the last ice age ...

Evidence of human life in the Gobi Desert 8,000 years ago has been found, thanks to the analysis of an ancient dry lake in ...

New discoveries in north Arabian deserts show early humans lived there, leaving life-size animal engravings, tools, beads, ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and ...

The study authors conclude that these Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers were making their poison from the gifbol root bulb ...

Families filled the Burpee Museum of Natural History this weekend for its annual Holocene Holiday, an event focused on life during the Ice Age and how it connects to the world today.

A team of archaeologists working in South Africa has discovered a hoard of 60,000-year-old arrowheads affixed with a ...

Although humans are to blame for nature’s recent decline, a new study has shown that for millennia, European farming ...

The arrow came to light in a layer of sediments dating to 60,000 years ago, suggesting the artifact is just as old. Namely, ...

A granite wall under the Atlantic Ocean in France reveals the existence of a community that predates the arrival of ...

Study reveals 3,300-year ecological history of Kaziranga National Park, Assam, showing rhinos, forests, and climate shaped its landscape.