A Spanish study has examined the mobility patterns of individuals whose heads were severed and then nailed during the Iron Age within the context of Iberian culture. Analysis was conducted on seven ...

In an underground cave of southern China, an eyeless river creature with an externally “visible” skull moved through the dark waters. Its hard-to-reach home helped it go largely unnoticed. But when ...

Ancient Magdalenians practiced cannibalism, consuming enemies and possibly loved ones, revealing prehistoric violence.

Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.

Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, ...

A UCLA art historian is exploring what the color blue can tell us about the hidden history of Indigenous peoples.

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene ...

An Arkansas woman whose stillborn child was among the human remains that were sold as part of a national scheme is pushing ...