As the archaeological finds point toward a sophisticated method of deep-ocean fishing, the study authors believe the ancient seafarers constructed boats from organic materials and held them together ...

A stone tool found in the sand has always been considered the handiwork of early humans and their ancestors. But a remarkable discovery in a Brazilian forest suggests that might not be so. Scientists ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...

Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This object is part of the Education ...

More than 30,000 years ago, seafaring humans made a momentous trek from present-day Taiwan to the Ryukyu Islands of southwestern Japan—a journey of some 140 miles without any of the advanced ...

Researchers have uncovered fascinating insights into the lives of prehistoric Native Americans who made camp in the Great Lakes region around 13,000 years ago. The camp, now called the Belson site, ...

Archaeologists have made an "unprecedented" discovery within the burial of a Viking woman, Gemini.no reported. The ...