The "skull cup" was found in a cave where ancient humans modified the bones of the dead for thousands of years. But its ...

Ancient humans who buried their dead in caves went back up to a year later to harvest body parts for tools and food. Those ...

A rock was inserted into the mouth of a 10-year-old to keep the deceased child from rising from the grave and spreading malaria, researchers believe. / David Pickel/Stanford University While nails ...

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Author Charlie Carlson notes in his book that this area has become “legendary” due to its reportedly morbid past.

The early ancestors of humans deliberately made stones into spheres 1.4 million years ago, a study said on Wednesday, though what prehistoric people used the balls for remains a mystery.

Washington State’s Puget Sound—home to the metropolises of Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia—is a sitting duck for a major earthquake, whether it comes in the form of a deep tremor triggered by a ...

However, it’s been unclear if competition from giant hyenas ( Pachycrocuta brevirostris) would have limited hominin access to ...

Ancient humans who buried their dead in caves went back up to a year later to harvest body parts for tools and food. Those are the findings of a new study into the Cueva de los Marmoles, a cave in ...