Scientists have linked a fossilized elephant skull from Kashmir with another from Turkmenistan, identifying them as a distinct species of Palaeoloxodon. These findings could fill gaps in the ...

Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, the former Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, who has died aged 87, was better known to the public as the archaeologist Colin Renfrew.

Constructed around 11,000 years ago, it stands as the oldest known European structure from the Stone Age, possibly used to trap reindeer ... The team suspects more remnants of our prehistoric ...

Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles have been found in England, and they may have been part of a "sacred arc," an ...

A set of prehistoric stone artifacts from the last ice age was recently found to contain 15,800-year-old engravings. The ...

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Ephedra seeds found in an ancient burial pit may be the earliest evidence yet for the medicinal use of plants.

Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...

Scientists might be closer to learning who invented the wheel after discovering stone spindle stabilizers in Israel that date ...

A structure in southwest England that's associated with King Arthur isn't medieval as scientists had long thought. Instead, ...