HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

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400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has long been a mystery to ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity has revealed that a skeleton discovered in a Roman-era tomb in Pommerœul, Belgium, is actually a composite of bones from at least five individuals who ...

While 'surgical' practices such as trepanations are well attested since the first stages of the European Neolithic, the amputation of limbs in Prehistoric periods has not been well-documented until ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable collection of 5,000-year-old skeleton masks and skull cups crafted from human bones at a Stone Age site in China. This discovery sheds light on how ancient ...

Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago. Reading time 3 minutes In 1960, a villager found something ...

A rare roe deer skull headdress unearthed at the early Neolithic settlement of Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt is sharpening the picture of how Europe’s first farmers and local hunter-gatherers interacted, ...

For historians and archaeologists, Tekkalakote has long been known as an important site. Earlier excavations had identified it as a Neolithic settlement, and the surrounding hillocks are known ...

Archaeologists have revealed a "unique" prehistoric burial featuring the remains of a child whose skeleton displays evidence of unusual marks on its bones. The child's remains were discovered at an ...