This rib bone discovered in a cave in the Spanish Pyrenees tells a story of Bronze Age violence. But who fired the shot?

Some 4,000 years ago, an archer in the Pyrenees mountain range fired a flint arrowhead at another person, advancing on them ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, ...

The world’s oldest human-crafted bone tools are 1.5 million years old, according to a new study. This suggests that human ancestors were more intelligent than previously believed.

That time it was Rodney Wood's son Joey, then 10 years old, who found the bones. They included a human skull, jaw bone and teeth, ribs, parts of the backbone, pelvic bone and an arm or leg bone ...

The bone tools reported in this study were from the time that the ancient human ancestors were progressing into the "Acheulean" age which began as far back as about 1.7 million years ago.