Researchers have recreated birch tar using techniques associated with Neanderthals. Their results suggest material may have ...

A new study explores whether birch tar, long associated with Neanderthal toolmaking, may have served another purpose as well.

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our ...

A new study challenges the age of a site in Chile, called Monte Verde, that's crucial to our understanding of how people got ...

Gary Todd / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a 13,500-year-old human settlement in ...

A petroglyph of the "God of Sun" in the Helan Mountains rock art cluster Photo: Courtesy of the Administration Office of ...

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia uncovered a 13,500-year-old human settlement, revealing sophisticated tools and evidence of ...

By collecting bark from a dead birch tree (left) and processing it in a fire pit (center), Oxford’s Tjaark Siemssen prepared ...

The Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile, discovered in the 1970s, revolutionized the thinking about when humans entered ...

Florida hides real-life castles from coral fortresses to pink palaces. These magical spots feel straight out of a fairytale.

Old-school survival tools like full-tang knives and primitive fire starters outperform modern gear when batteries die and ...