Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.

For more than 200 years, Indiana University has been at the forefront of disciplines that explore what makes us human, producing world-class musicians and performers along with leading scholars in ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

For some, this status was reached when we attained a certain level of technological complexity, while others view the emergence of abstract thought as the rubicon of modernity – although a new study ...

The museum has one of the most substantial collections of Indian art in the country, making for a vividly colorful exhibit of ...

The Global Times has launched the "Voices from the Study" series dedicated to in-depth intellectual dialogues with ...

A tiny object from an Oregon cave is pulling archaeologists back into one of the oldest and most contested chapters in American history.

New research reveals how the invention of a crucial Ice Age technology helped humans defend against extreme cold during ancient global migrations.

Meet Lucy's hunter, a massive, horned crocodile that likely terrorized early human ancestors in ancient Ethiopia.