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 ...

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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 ...

A study of bones from a Spanish cave suggests humans might have fashioned tools from the remains of recently deceased community members or relatives Margaret Osborne Daily Correspondent Human bone ...

An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. An curved arrow pointing right. A peculiar tomb has been unearthed in Peru. Inside the burial chamber, the 3,000-year-old remains of an ...

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

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.

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 ...