Why do so few individuals have birthdays on Christmas Day?

Jay L. Zagorsky  / The Conversation Christmas and New Year’s are days of celebration in many parts of the world when people gather…

Reassessing Neanderthals: Do They Truly Belong to the Same Species as Us?

Neanderthals have been recognized as a species distinct from modern humans for quite some time. But if a trio of researchers from universities…

Ukraine’s Skulls Show Early Modern Humans Originated in the East

By Eva-Maria Geigl & Thierry Grange/The Conversation How did our species,  Homo sapiens , arrive in Western Europe? Published in  Nature Ecology &…

Perhaps as long as 24,000 years ago, the first Americans arrived by sea ice highway.

By Liza Lester/AGU One of the hottest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally…

A Detailed Prehistoric Tool Is Shown in This French Painting from the 15th Century

This artistic-anthropological mystery was solved after a team of researchers analyzed a curious stone, depicted in a 15th century French painting. Merging the…

New Discovery Programs Mammoths may have been hunted to extinction by prehistoric humans.

Updated 21 January, 2019 - 18:53 Ed Whelan It has long been debated as to how our ancient ancestors were able to kill…

Developing Archaic Culture: Were the earliest artists female?

The first researchers of Paleolithic caves and sites related to the earliest humans called the people who left paintings and other pieces of…

Mangiapane Cave in Sicily: Prehistoric Cave and Modern Feast Site

Updated 11 April, 2016 - 03:57 dhwty Mangiapane Cave (known also in Italian as Grotta Mangiapane) is a cave that has been occupied…

Prehistoric “Man Hunter, Woman Gatherer” View Is Grossly Inaccurate, According to Research

Updated 29 June, 2023 - 23:00 ashley cowie For a long time, it has been believed that prehistoric men played the role of…

Black eyed children: Real, or just a creepy myth?

Black eyed children: Real, or just a creepy myth? THERE are dozens of stories. Pale kids with black, soulless eyes knocking on people’s…