Long before modern sunscreens, Homo sapiens may have found natural ways to protect themselves from the sun’s dangerous rays.

Imagine stumbling upon a single fragment of a finger bone in a remote Siberian cave, only to realize it unlocks the story of ...

An international team of scientists has found a bone spear tip dating back between 80,000 and 70,000 years in the Mezmaiskaya cave, in the North Caucasus (Russia). What’s extraordinary about the ...

While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle and the invention of stone tools, the Neolithic period was ushered ...

Early humans likely used naturally sharp rocks before making their own tools, a new hypothesis suggests, potentially pushing ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

Scientists say tailored clothes, ochre-based sunscreen, and cave shelter helped Homo sapiens survive a magnetic shift 41,000 ...

New research suggests that early humans may have used ochre as sunscreen to survive a deadly period of intense solar ...

The production of tailored clothing and the use of ochre as a sunscreen may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over ...

A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion.

Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date back about 120,000 years. But a new study, published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, analyzed artifacts from the Lower Paleolithic ...