Under international law, all nations own the natural resources found within their borders. Not just rich nations, not just ...

The term Cro-Magnon is still widely used, but modern anthropology no longer recognizes it as a separate species. This explains how the label originated, how it became tied to outdated racial ideas, ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

An artist's interpretation of an early human ancestor striking flint on a piece of iron pyrite. Craig Williams, The Trustees of the British Museum Archaeologists were digging at a site in England when ...