An international team of researchers has pinpointed the first comprehensive age for the last known occurrence of the early hominin species Homo erectus . This is an artist’s reconstruction of Homo erectus . Image credit: Yale University. In the 1930s, …

Scientists have found fragments a human-made projectile point in a rib of an American mastodon ( Mammut americanum ) from the Manis site, Washington, the United States. The projectile point is about 13,900 years old and is morphologically different from …

Archaeologists excavating near Scarborough in North Yorkshire, Britain, have uncovered the remains of a small settlement — including bone, antler and stone tools and weapons, the bones of animals, and traces of woodworking — inhabited by groups of hunter-gatherers …