Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system.

The ancient megalithic site called Puma Punku in Bolivia has not been adequately explained by scholars, and certainly not by archaeologists. Though it is claimed that this place was constructed by a ...

Two researchers discuss how ancient DNA is used to track how people moved and lived during Britain's bronze age.

His recreation suggests that ancient people may have been harnessing electricity millennia earlier than we thought.

Regina Barber and Katia Riddle of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about prehistoric cooking, earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest and how teens are sleeping less than before.

More than 4,000 years before modern highways and petroleum refineries, Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia were engineering materials in ways that closely resemble advanced asphalt technology, according ...

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Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological site located in central China. The excavation project at Xigou, led by the ...

A digging stick and a tiny tool of unknown purpose are among the oldest handheld wooden tools ever found. The objects, from 430,000 years ago, indicate early human ancestors were using wood for tools, ...

Explore jungle survival and primitive building techniques, including constructing small structures using mud and clay, creating underground dwellings from scratch, and building tree houses in the wild ...