The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

The nature of bones and teeth -- The nature of an archaeological human bone assemblage -- The determination of age and sex -- Metric variation in the skull -- Metric variation in the post-cranial ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by ...

Bone diagenesis refers to the complex series of physical, chemical and biological processes that modify bone tissues after burial. This alteration affects both the organic and inorganic components, ...

It was thought that disabled people were looked down upon in the Middle Ages, but a new discovery disputes that belief. Human bones discovered by archaeologists offer a window into the lives of Middle ...

ROC DE LES ORENTES, SPAIN—Millennia ago, a local community living high in the Catalan Pyrenees mountains near present-day Girona buried their dead in a cave over a period of two or three centuries.