The oldest known cremation found in Africa, dating from 9,500 years ago, raises a question: Why were the remains burned in ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

Analysis - Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the base of a mountain in Africa, ...

Archaeologists discover human remains by pyre in recent excavation in Malawi, suggesting hunter gatherer societies attributed ...

Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

In 1989, paleontologist Darren Tanke suggested that similar breaks were the result of mating as one dinosaur mounted the ...

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

When someone describes themselves as “big-boned,” they’re usually trying to explain why they appear larger even when eating ...