Lines, dots and other symbols painted in caves during the last Ice Age may be the earliest example of proto writing – symbols that communicate a small amount of information like an emoji.

Researchers analysed the ancient Ice Age bones of 13 people aged between 10 and 20. They found most of these young people entered puberty by 13.5 years, reaching full adulthood between 17 and 22 ...

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet's last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would ...

A group led by Dartmouth researcher Meredith Kelly is sampling sediment from local bodies of water to learn more about how melting happened during the last Ice Age — in hopes of anticipating the ...

Humans lived in South America many thousands of years earlier than previously believed, during the height of the Last Ice Age. A new archaeological study discovered this by analyzing a trio of ...