What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we seem to ...

Located on a plateau overlooking the fertile plains often referred to as the “cradle of civilisation”, the Unesco World ...

Prehistoric life was also relatively easy in the sense that warfare was uncommon. Although some observers (such as Steven Pinker) claim that war was rife in prehistoric times, many anthropologists ...

Archaeologists working in the Amazon have uncovered sealed stone spheres that contain carefully arranged human bones, but the remains inside do not appear to belong to single individuals. Instead, ...

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 ...

When you open the cover of Jay Matternes: Paleoartist and Wildlife Painter, the title page painting might seem somewhat ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species — Homo sapiens — ...

What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some ...

A Cleves man is charged with vehicular homicide for allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian. 1 hospitalized after being stabbed in Cheviot It happened at 10:40 p.m. on Mozart Avenue in Cheviot.

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the ...

Why do we find natural scenes like green fields, trees, and rivers beautiful? Why do people have an urge to gain wealth and power? Why do human beings fight wars? Why are human beings creative?