Cave excavation of a youngster’s grave pushes back the date of the first human burial identified in the continent by at least a few thousand years.
Researchers have long assumed mostly men ran ancient Bronze Age societies, but the find points to a female ruler in Spain 3,700 years ago.
Found in Alaska, the roughly 10,000-year-old bone bolsters the idea that early human settlers took a coastal rather than inland route.
Ancient hunter-gatherers burned a hut in which they had placed a dead woman, suggesting a change in how death was viewed.
Ancient migrants to southern England brought the makings of the iconic monument with them, researchers suspect.
Ancient find may have sounded off during rituals in a cave adorned with wall art.
Commoners in ancient Egypt may have used mud in place of expensive resin to imitate royal mummification techniques.
A flat-ended rock found in an Israeli cave marks an early technological shift by human ancestors to make stone tools for grinding rather than cutting.
A drawing of a pig on the island of Sulawesi dates to at least 45,500 years ago.
Ivory from the sunken Portuguese trading ship Bom Jesus contains clues about elephant herds that once roamed Africa, and the people who hunted them.