Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis...these sign sequences have the same level of complexity and information density as the earliest proto-cuneiform script, which emerged tens of...

In the journal Antiquity, Dr. Shokouh Khosravi published preliminary findings of the largest known corpus of prehistoric seal impressions in the entire ancient world. The corpus, made up of over 7,000 seal impressions, more than 200 clay figurines, clay tokens,...

"It is possible that we have discovered evidence of such a surgical procedure for the first time," Dr. Andrey Letyagin, a radiologist at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in a translated statement, since "we had...

A new investigation of ancient horned animal skulls found in Spain's Des-Cubierta Cave deepens the mystery of when and why Neanderthals put them there. The findings have been published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.