The Mesolithic period began when the Ice Age ended and familiar patterns of survival collapsed. Large animals vanished, ...

New research shows that humans left their mark on the landscape through hunting and the use of fire tens of thousands of years before the advent of agriculture. The research paints a new picture of ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of people armed with fire and spears. A new study shows that these people ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

Originally discovered in 1973, the frontal bone was initially thought to be 36,000 years old, an age that coincided perfectly ...

In 1973, a partial human skull was uncovered in Hahnöfersand, Germany, during archaeological work. It did not come with any ...

Researchers clarify the Hahnöfersand bone's origins, revealing it as a modern human fossil from the Mesolithic period.

For almost half a century, a fragment of a human skull found on the banks of the Elbe River, near the German town of ...