Evidence buried in gypsum dunes suggests humans arrived far earlier than expected. Radiocarbon dates from three materials ...

Archaeologists and First Nations communities uncover 693 Ice Age-era stone artifacts in a high-altitude Blue Mountains cave, ...

The story of when humans first arrived in the Americas is being rewritten—thanks to some ancient footprints found in New ...

Roughly 10 years ago, researchers in Tumat, Siberia unearthed two 14,000-year-old canines that had been preserved so ...

Archaeologists have unearthed rare artefacts dating to the last ice age at a cave in Australia ’s Blue Mountains, providing definitive proof that the rugged ranges were once occupied by the ...

When two "puppies" were recovered from the Siberian permafrost, perfectly preserved like prehistoric popsicles, they were ...

This is one of the human groups that frequented the Pyrenean Mountains during the period known as the Last Glacial Maximum, or Ice Age. These Homo sapiens – nomadic hunter-gatherers who populated ...

Human presence in high-altitude open areas during the Ice Age is not just a possibility, but a reality, Marta Sánchez de la Torre writes Wednesday 07 May 2025 13:42 BST Comments ...

Scholars generally agree that fire was crucial to human survival during the most recent Ice Age—yet in Europe, there is surprisingly little evidence of hearths from its coldest years, between ...

However, not many well-preserved fireplaces dating back to the coldest part of the ice age (between 26,500 and 19,000 years ago) remain in Europe. Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any well ...