Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...

Found in southern Greece, the stick was one of two wooden artifacts that appear to have been shaped intentionally, according ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...