An amateur archaeologist cracked a 20,000-year-old code hidden in Europe’s Ice Age cave paintings. The dots and lines beside animals like bison and reindeer form a lunar calendar tracking mating and ...

Until now, researchers had only uncovered a few tantalizing hints that humans had reached the American continent by this time ...

New analysis of ancient artifacts reveal evidence that the First Americans arrived from East Asia by traveling along the ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...

A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become North America's ...

Just 20,000 years ago, coastlines stretched farther, whole land bridges connected continents, and massive glaciers reshaped the map. This is the world as it looked during the last Ice Age.

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Greenland’s bedrock is shifting, rising, and sliding northwest as ancient and modern ice loss reshape the island beneath the ...

A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro 1936, ...

Prehistoric changes and accelerating climate change are ‘shrinking’ Greenland and causing it to drift, new research ...

Some predict the glaciers will vanish in two centuries, which could upset the volcanoes below, causing them to erupt more ...