In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central ...

More than 60 ancient tools found in France and Spain have been identified as whale bone, and the evidence shows that people ...

Human and animal bones were found inside the 1,500-year-old Bromeswell bucket. A double-sided comb was also discovered.

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago, according to a study conducted by scientists from ...

To see evidence of the Columbia River’s ancient past, you might not need to visit the river at all. In a roadcut just south of Granger, Yakima County, 10 million-year-old evidence is in plain view.

Technological advancements in the past decade have now made it possible to date the oldest of the tools to about 20,000 years ago. Scientists found that the bones came from blue whales, fin whales, ...

ERR News reports that a new experimental archaeology study may have finally solved a decades-old mystery surrounding a set of ...

Ancestor worship was important and similar to the Shang dynasty in China and also the ancient Egyptians, at around the same time (1500 BC). Maya households buried their dead underneath the floors ...