A team of scientists has found that the prehistoric ancestors of crocodiles were prevented from evolving into deep divers like whales by their sinuses. Researchers at the University of Southampton and ...

The etching, discovered at a Paleolithic campsite, may be the only known evidence hinting at how our ancestors fished over ...

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...

The Pueblo of Acoma in New Mexico recently made claim to a human skull found in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. A ...

Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...

T he fossilized remains of an entire prehistoric ecosystem, complete with footprints of extinct animals, have been discovered ...

Some 12,000-year-old stones have been discovered, which may be the oldest example of wheel-like tools. The spindle whorls ...

A career archaeologist with the U.S. Forest Service says managers have been engaging in irresponsible and illegal behavior ...

Researchers have excavated King Arthur's Hall, a rectangular enclosure in southwest England, and determined that it dates to ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a new ...

A 12,000-year-old tool used to spin fibers into yarn has been identified in an archaeological dig in northern Israel, ...

The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.