A new study suggests that fragments unearthed at an archaeological site in Uzbekistan look like other examples of arrowheads ...

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected discovery teaches us something new about the development of our species. Relics ...

A new study takes another look at some of the oldest known stone tools and suggests their makers transported materials for up ...

Tiny stone artifacts discovered in Uzbekistan may be the oldest known arrowheads, a new study suggests. It remains unclear whether these stone tools were created by modern humans, Neanderthals or some ...

Ancient bacterial DNA offers rare insights into how microbes evolved alongside their hosts and how they connect to species ...

Archaeologists have uncovered several prehistoric artifacts during an ongoing excavation at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and ...

The National Registry of Historic Places indicates that construction of the Portsmouth Meeting House spanned from 1699 to ...

Now, recent archeological work at the famous tomb of Liu He—better known as the Marquis of Haihun —has yielded what researchers believe are the oldest known steel acupuncture needles.

TEHRAN—Chogha Golan region in Mehran county, Ilam province, is the oldest cradle of agriculture across Iran and West Asia, Habibollah Mahmoudian, a specialist in prehistoric archaeology, has said.

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...