prehistory

Research indicates the out-of-Africa spread of humans was dictated by the appearance of favourable climatic windows.

Ceramics found on the coast of the Adriatic attest to a hitherto unknown artistic culture which flourished during the last Ice Age, thousands of...

The history of humanity, from our earliest ancestors to today’s indigenous people spread across the globe, is being retold as a Cambridge University...

Our earliest ancestors may have started walking on two limbs instead of four in a bid to monopolise resources and to carry as much food as possible...

One of the most important later Bronze Age sites ever discovered in Britain is being excavated near Peterborough, providing a richly detailed, “3D”...

An old lock of hair has enabled researchers to sequence the genome of an Aboriginal Australian, and show that modern Aboriginal Australians are...

The only Briton to have entered the spectacular cave featured in Werner Herzog’s new documentary explains how rock-art was just one element of multi-...

Early humans may have preferred the fox to the dog as an animal companion, new archaeological findings suggest.