Human ancestors first set foot on the interior of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau around 30,000-40,000 years ago, according to new research by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This ...

Archaeologists and historians have long been stumped by an unsolved mystery concerning the well-inhabited islands of Southeast Asia, which were populated long ago. To inhabit the islands, it is ...

Researchers used three different methods to date the site, challenging the preexisting notion of the site being between 1.2 and 1.6 million years old. Ubeidiya, a prehistoric site in the Jordan Valley ...

ITHACA, NEW YORK—According to a report in the Olean Times Herald, Sturt Manning of Cornell University and John Hart of the New York State Museum have obtained new radiocarbon dates from Native ...

Excavations at a central Italian city upended the belief that it served as a “backwater town” during the Roman era, finding ...