Two human teeth with holes drilled through them served as jewelry, report researchers, who discovered the 8,500-year-old artifacts in Turkey.

Ancient artists used ochre, one of Earth's oldest materials, as a red paint, but researchers have only now figured out how they made it.

Archaeology and materials science confirm the "pure gold" coins of medieval West Africa. "...the process used to refine gold in Tadmekka is real."

DNA analysis offers clues to the brutal deaths and respectful burial evident in a 5,000-year-old mass grave.

The archaeologist who analyzed the ayahuasca-containing fox-snout pouch calls it "the most amazing artifact I've had the privilege to work with."

An entire rattlesnake turned up in a coprolite, or fossilized feces. Here are two potential explanations.

Urine salts offer clues to how people went from hunting sheep and goats in the wild to managing them as livestock.

11,500-year-old bones add new information to the story of dogs and people living and working together.

"It has been more than 80 years since such a shrine for the ancestors was discovered in Egypt…"

Carved stone tools called Levallois cores challenge assumptions about where prehistoric innovation happened.