Tlingit tribes to get ancient remains
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Human remains estimated to be more than 10,000 years old will be returned to southeast Alaska Tlingit tribes 11 years after they were found in a cave in the Tongass National Forest.
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A land-clearing project in southern Antigua is threatening a unique ancient settlement where Arawak Indians lived from roughly 500 B.C. until the arrival of Christopher Columbus, an archaeologist said Monday.
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Researchers use X-ray scanners to create 3-D models of prehistoric creatures preserved inside rocks.
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Archeologists say a prehistoric skeleton and campsite discovered on the muddy shore of Lake Travis could be between 700 and 2,000 years old.
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Ice can be loaded with dirt and, by consequence, fragments of ancient DNA that have been preserved by the cold.
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For centuries the Tsaatan people have roamed Mongolia with the reindeer that provide their livelihood. But disease and inbreeding now threaten their herds&#151;and cultural future. With photo gallery.
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The discovery of four fossil skeletons of human ancestors in Georgia, a former Soviet republic, offers a look at a species in transition.
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What could be the oldest known remains of a polar bear are uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago.
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A husband-wife fossil-hunting team in Spain has excavated the skeleton of a 13 million-year-old creature they believe is close to the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans.
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Archaeologists surveying a property earmarked for a Long Island housing development discovered an ancient skull.
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Scientists said the fossils should give new insights into a little-known period of early human origins.
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The frozen carcass of a 37,000-year-old baby mammoth unearthed this summer in Siberia arrives in Japan for tests that researchers hope will shed new light on the internal structure of the ancient beasts.
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A feud flares over an ancient skull that may or may not have belonged to a new species of human
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A 3,000-year-old burial site in Vanuatu containing 60 headless skeletons and skulls in pots is helping end the mystery over colonization of the Pacific and the first Polynesians, archaeologists said on Tuesday.
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A now-extinct tribe could have been the first settlers of the Americas, a university researcher told a science conference in Britain.
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The Natural History Museum is to return the remains of 18 aboriginal people to the Australian government.
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Archaeologists have begun excavating ancient skeletal remains believed to be those of five people, probably Anasazis.