Among the remains of at least 110 mammoths (gargantuan creatures that reached three meters tall and weighed some six tons), ...

Archaeologists reveal method used by ancient humans to hunt mighty mammoths to extinction - Prehistoric hunters used stone-tipped spears as pikes to kill charging mammoths and mastodons ...

For early humans, hunting megafauna was part of survival. ... [Related: Woolly mammoth ‘jerky’ preserves 52,000-year-old fossil chromosomes.] In subsequent research, ...

Archaeologists Figured Out How Early Humans Killed Ice Age Mammoths. It’s Not How You Think. 190(ish) pounds versus six tons isn’t exactly a fair fight—but our earliest ancestors evened the ...

The 2002 film Ice Age showed a face-off between Manny the woolly mammoth and a human. Twentieth Century Fox/IMDB Hunting for clues. When early humans hunted, they tended to kill many animals at ...

Around 13,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, early humans faced the daunting task of hunting massive creatures like mammoths, mastodons, and saber-toothed cats. The common belief was that these ...

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

As Woolly Mammoths trekked across Alaska thousands of years ago, hunter-gatherers followed their every step. New research on the journey of a 14,000-year-old mammoth named Élmayųujey’eh — Elma, for ...

Early humans may have played a significant role in the demise of one of the most iconic ancient species -- the woolly mammoth -- and others like it, according to new research.

A study of a 12,800-year-old skull of a toddler offers a glimpse at how early Americans found food, and how their hunts may have led to a mass extinction.

The typical depiction of humans hunting mammoths toward the tail of the Pleistocene imagines them chucking spears, tipped with sharp rocks known as Clovis points, ...