Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

While excavating at the ancient fort of La Loma in the northern Iberian Peninsula, archaeologists found the shattered ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

Last month, divers off the coast of South Korea retrieved 87 bowls and cups from the dark, swirling waters. The objects were ...

Researchers from the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar and the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Barcelona ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

Archaeologists excavating at Canhasan in central Turkey have unearthed an extraordinarily rare 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror. The discovery represents one of only 56 such mirrors ever found across ...