A prehistoric human skeleton buried alongside a number of wild animal remains may represent the burial of a "shaman" who died around 12,000 years ago, a study has proposed. The burial was excavated in ...

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Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

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The tooth of a young girl found in a cave in Laos has been revealed to belong to a group of prehistoric human relatives known as Denisovans, and the discovery is helping researchers better understand ...

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon ...