Alberto García Piquer, researcher at the Department of Prehistory, is autor and co-editor of the book The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale ...

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

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The Shetland Islands lie between Scotland and Norway, where the North Sea meets the Atlantic. They are part of the ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and ...