Analysis of 40,000-year old tools created by Neanderthals reveals surprisingly sophisticated construction, including an adhesive material.

A fragmented comet thought to have smashed into the Earth's atmosphere almost 13 millennia ago is helping archaeologists date stone tools.

People in the Americas started to use bow and arrows about 5,000 years ago, coinciding with the growth of exchange networks and when people live in villages

A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints and stone tools used by people who lived in the Carolinas millennia ago.

"The fact that these tools are associated with Paranthropus may force us to rethink the capabilities of these enigmatic hominins."

"The fact that these tools are associated with Paranthropus may force us to rethink the capabilities of these enigmatic hominins."

The remains of a mother mammoth and her calf discovered in New Mexico is among the best evidence for humans settling in North America earlier than thought.

New research that indicates humans may have arrived in Europe much earlier than previously thought also raises some intriguing questions.

Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.