Deep in the limestone caves of southern China lies a discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about human ...

Twenty years ago, scientists found a three-foot skeleton on a tropical island. Where this human species fits in our ...

The team’s work has been featured on National Geographic’s website, in a society documentary,“Cave People of the Himalaya,” that aired on PBS in February 2012, and in the October 2012 issue of the ...

Archaeologists say the finds will help them better understand the prehistoric people who lived or buried their dead in this ...

Ancient human burial sites are extremely rare. However, many ancient human remains have been unearthed over the years from Gough's Cave, particularly during major excavations in the late 1980s and ...

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago.

Along with a fragile ecosystem, some people may not realize that caves contain ancient art and that these places are considered sacred spaces, and preservationists say they must be treated with ...

At the dawn of humanity, in a cave on what would become the Southern Cape coast, people who thought and looked like us mixed paint, crafted fine tools and explored graphic design.

Ancient humans were getting high on hallucinogenic drugs during cave rituals 3,000 years ago, according to a new study. Researchers made the discovery after studying Bronze Age strands of hair ...