South Bend’s own cave walls will be painted with the legend of the hardworking, underprivileged workers who made our city what it is today.” ...

Long before modern sunscreens, Homo sapiens may have found natural ways to protect themselves from the sun’s dangerous rays.

A sweeping new archaeological discovery could fundamentally reshape what we know about early human intelligence and cultural ...

Scientists say tailored clothes, ochre-based sunscreen, and cave shelter helped Homo sapiens survive a magnetic shift 41,000 ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

The samples were mostly from stalagmites, which grow upward from a cave floor as mineral-infused water slowly drips on them (their counterparts, stalactites, grow down from the cave ceiling.) ...

A study by Mukhopadhyay and his colleagues in institutions in the US and Europe has bolstered support for the idea that these ...

The study suggests that Homo sapiens survived — and ultimately thrived — by developing technologies like tailored clothing, sun-blocking ochre, and strategic cave use. Neanderthals ...

the areas most exposed to cosmic radiation coincide with regions where increased cave occupation and ochre use by Homo sapiens are documented. This spatial and temporal overlap suggests these ...

ANN ARBOR—Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefitted from sunscreen ... People used it to paint objects, cave walls and even to decorate their bodies. "There have been some experimental tests ...

Ancient Homo sapiens about 40,000 years ago may have even ... People used it to paint objects, on cave walls and even to decorate their bodies. “There have been some experimental tests that ...

Ochre clay used in body painting gave our ancestors protection against a rise in harmful UV radiation, say scientists ...