A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion.

Theopetra Cave, in Greece, believed to be the oldest human construction on earth, reopened to the public after 9 years of ...

The discovery of evidence suggesting that hunter-gatherers from mainland Europe reached Malta approximately 1,000 years earlier than previously believed has rewritten the timeline of early human ...

A team of researchers from the University of Malta and the Max Planck Institute, led by archaeologist Eleonor Scerri made a ...

Carved 20,000 years ago into a French cave floor, the world’s oldest 3D map may reveal not just rivers and hills — but the ...

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A 210,000-year-old skull from Greece’s Apidima Cave reveals the earliest known Homo sapiens outside Africa, pushing back the ...

Queensland risks failing its "obligation to the world" to conserve the state's biodiversity if a time frame for its environmental ... said without setting a timeline "those processes can just ...

“A challenge for geoscientists is accurately constraining when rocks resided in the near-surface environment,” said Alexis Ault, associate professor at USU’s Department of Geosciences.

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.