Roughly 8,200 years ago, the island of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov in Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, housed a large burial ground where men, women and children of varying ages were buried.

For hundreds of thousands of years, a secluded cave in Siberia was a refuge for our ancient ancestors. Carved into the foothills of the Altai Mountains, Denisova Cave holds a treasure trove of tools ...

What would it feel like to wear a coat, dress or skirt decorated with some 300 elk incisors? The elk was the most important animal to the people inhabiting the northern coniferous belt, with its ...