An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...

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The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying ...

A faint hand stencil hidden on a cave wall in Indonesia has been dated to at least 67,800 years old—potentially making it the oldest known cave art yet studied. The discovery comes from a limestone ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia.

A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment ...

A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about ...

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

The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, just yielded an ancient secret.