Starchy residue preserved in ancient stone tools may rewrite the story of crop domestication in the American Southwest, according to research led by the University of Utah.

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia.

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art. Scientists have identified ...