Scientists excavating a Stone Age cave on South Africa’s southern coast have followed a trail of engraved pigments to what they suspect are the ancient roots of modern human behavior. Analyses of 13 ...

The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some archaeologists. They could be early signs of creativity and symbolic thinking in ...

Long before human communication evolved into incessant tapping on computer keys, people scratched on eggshells. Don’t laugh—researchers say a cache of ostrich eggshells engraved with geometric designs ...