The authors of the study, from the Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Science, first discovered the tooth as part ...

Scientists dug up a Paleolithic tooth that shows signs that these hominins may have been capable of executing a precise ...

Scientists say a tooth discovered in a Russian cave has provided the oldest evidence of "complex" dental care. The post Tooth ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: When was the dawn of writing? Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia seem to answer that question in the sense that symbols represent sounds, ...

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HORTEN, NORWAY—An excavation in eastern Norway has uncovered traces of a dwelling and thousands of artifacts marking a shift some 9,000 years ago from nomadic hunting and gathering to a more sedentary ...

A magnified view of tiny specks of blue residue found on a Paleolithic stone artifact Izzy Wisher et al. / Antiquity, 2025 Researchers just found something that could change the way we envision color ...

SHOHAM, Israel — Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years ...