They come from a previously unknown Stone Age group that may represent a complex mashup of early members of our genus Homo.
Native Americans may have used sharpened turkey leg bones as tattoo needles between 5,520 and 3,620 years ago.
DNA from ancient bones shows humans and Neandertals were regularly mixing genes by about 45,000 years ago.
In ancient Egypt, commoners may have been mummified and then encased in mud to repair damage to the body or to imitate royal techniques used with royals.
In the Ice Age, Arctic hunters may have turned to some game for their fatty bones. Much of those animals’ meat might have been left to domesticate dogs.
A man died soon after opening a mummy’s tomb. But don’t assume the mummy killed him. Statistics help explain why coincidences may not be meaningful.
Women in the Americas speared large prey as early as 9,000 years ago, new archaeological evidence suggests.
A new method of 3-D scanning mummified animals reveals life and death details of a snake, a bird and a cat that lived in ancient Egypt.
Scientists built a 'Stonehenge Lego' model in a sound chamber to study how sound would have behaved in the ancient stone circle.