WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Genetic research that reconstructed the past population dynamics of the cave bear, a prominent prehistoric denizen of Europe, implicates Homo sapiens rather than climate cooling ...

The discovery of more than 100 prehistoric structures in the Cova Dones cave in Spain makes it one of the most significant prehistoric underground sites in the world. Archaeologists found stalagmites ...

Reindeer hunters found the remains of the bear on the Bolshoy Lyakhovsky islands in the East Siberian Sea and donated the carcass to Northeastern Federal University (NEFU) in Yakutsk, according to the ...

A cave in the Pyrenees shows that prehistoric people repeatedly used high-mountain areas for copper mining over 7,000 years ...

The skull of a dire wolf, an Ice Age apex predator that once roamed the Americas more than 10,000 years ago, is surfacing on the auction block. The specimen is part of Heritage Auctions’s Nature and ...

The findings challenge the long-held assumption that prehistoric people didn’t spend much time in high-altitude mountain ...

Nestled in the Pyrenees Mountains, the high-altitude cave may have been an ancient mining camp and burial ground.

In the past, scientists thought that prehistoric peoples only traveled briefly through high-altitude mountain areas, rather ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Prehistoric humans intentionally modified stalagmites in the Cova Dones cave in Spain, forming over 100 structures—known as speleofacts—as a result. The recent archaeological find becomes one of the ...