Prehistoric tools and ancient anchors were recently discovered during an underwater excavation of a 2,500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sicily. The Superintendence of the Sea (SopMare), a ...

(Reuters) -Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, ...

Deep beneath the hills of southern Poland lies a breathtaking window into prehistory. The Neolithic striped flint mines of ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

More than 30,000 years ago, seafaring humans made a momentous trek from present-day Taiwan to the Ryukyu Islands of southwestern Japan—a journey of some 140 miles without any of the advanced ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Scientists have a mystery on their hands after the discovery of 330 stone tools about 2.9 million years old at a site in Kenya, along Lake Victoria's shores, that were ...

Buried for 300,000 years, hundreds of prehistoric tools have been uncovered in a Kent sinkhole—including hand axes over a foot long. This could be Britain’s oldest evidence of early human ingenuity.

More than two dozen prehistoric tools and weapons found on an undeveloped plot in Pitkin County could provide archaeologists information about hunter-gatherer toolmaking in the West. The find, on ...

Archaeologists have shed light on how prehistoric humans in North America hunted megafauna, such as mammoths. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, proposes that these hunters used ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

Prehistoric Australia was not the sunny, laid back continent we know today. Between 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during the ...