A Tulane University-led study published in Nature Geoscience reveals that melting North American ice sheets were the primary ...

Long before the Sumerians pressed reeds into clay, humans may have already taken their first steps toward writing. Forty thousand years ago, in the depths of Ice Age caves, people began leaving behind ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...

The Bering Land Bridge that once connected Asia and Alaska may have emerged much later during the last ice age than previously thought, narrowing the window of time during which humans could have ...