A prehistoric skeleton found deep in a flooded Mexican cave was likely placed there in a ritual

Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

Paleolithic humans invented an 'early predecessor to writing' at least 40,000 years ago, carved signs suggest

A statistical analysis of a series of signs carved into artifacts from around 40,000 years ago suggests humans developed ...

Scientists Analyzed Teeth and Bones From 5,500-Year-Old Burials—and Solved a Genetic Mystery

Researchers analyzed DNA from a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer community’s burial site to understand family connections. The ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Humans May Have Used These Mysterious Symbols to Encode Information Tens of Thousands of Years Before the First Writing Systems

The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...
The Economist

Marks left by Stone Age humans were surprisingly complex

In a paper published in PNAS, they reveal not only that these ancient carvings were applied in an intentional, systematic ...
Archaeology

Dating of Early Human Site in Jordan Valley Pushed Back by 300,000 Years

According to a statement released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a new study conducted by Ari Matmon of the Hebrew ...

Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.