From the caves of Ice Age France to the stone enclosures of southeastern Turkey, a recurring tradition of human animal hybrids hints at trance, costume, and shamanic journeys at the dawn of culture.

By digging carefully, archaeologists can connect information from aDNA to information about the social lives of these people.

Tatiana Schlossberg, Diane Keaton, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Val Kilmer, Michelle Trachtenberg, Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Hackman, Anne ...

Our guide had disappeared. He slipped away as we were distracted by the river flowing beneath the 800-year-old bridge where ...

The Pahon Cave in Gabon offers archaeologists a well-preserved look into the Late Stone Age time period in central Africa, thanks to the stratified layers of guano-based sediment. This is in contrast ...

“Age is just a number. So don’t take this personally,” the Spotify slide warns, before revealing each user’s calculated listening age. How exactly did Spotify land on that number, though? Marc Hazan, ...

Earlier this month, Chinese art collector Cherry Xu’s fashion-art foundation Cheruby — based in Shanghai — opened an exhibition and residency program with a show from fashion designer and artist ...

While life emerged around 4 billion years ago, human history—from the earliest humans approximately 2.5 million years ago to the present day—represents a relatively short period in the scale of ...

As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...

Deep underground, thousands of years of silence are abruptly broken by a researcher singing. His voice seems to awaken the walls of the cavern as the intimate space comes alive with the sound of our ...

Late in Queens of the Stone Age‘s strange and wonderful night in Hollywood on Tuesday, singer Josh Homme paused to state the obvious. “I know it’s all a bit strange and unusual, and a little ...

Stone is “making a comeback” in the building industry after years of being “forgotten”, said the BBC. With clear benefits to the environment, such as a lower carbon footprint than other traditional ...