As the archaeological finds point toward a sophisticated method of deep-ocean fishing, the study authors believe the ancient ...

Ancient artifacts reveal advanced plant processing and seafaring skills in Southeast Asia 40,000 years ago. 8 million ...

A new study has revealed more about the ancestral origins of the ancient practice, which involves mounting coffins on cliffs.

Sometimes the smallest discoveries can lead to the biggest revelations. For a team of scientists exploring a mountain range in Laos, one of these seemingly tiny clues turned into a big scientific find ...

Newly identified plant fossils found in Argentina suggest that a group of spurges long thought to have Asian origins may have first appeared in Gondwanan South America. Anyone who has taken a long ...

Buddhism has produced a cultural legacy more glorious than most great faiths. Initially spreading throughout Asia, over the centuries it triumphed not by the might of military conquest but by virtue ...

A group of scientists have uncovered a new chapter of the "human story" in Southeast Asia thanks to a partially preserved skeleton dating back approximately 7,200 years. A new peer-reviewed study ...

A new study published in Science Advances and led by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology uncovers how flexibility made the difference between survival and extinction. By analyzing fossil teeth ...

This week, Reuters highlights global stories from a mobile clinic in Gaza and Kazakh collector preserving Soviet tape recorders, to Cuban scientists preserving ancient fish species. Other stories ...