See this kid right here? That's a reconstruction of how a Neanderthal boy would look like: red hair, fair skin, and all. Now imagine hearing how they must've sounded like 50,000 years ago. Thanks to Robert McCarthy, imagining it will be a lot easier. Head over the full article to hear a simulated voice of a Neanderthal.

Ancient tools dating back to 35,000 years ago by the Martidja Banyjima people have been unearthed in a rock shelter in the northwestern part of Australia. These artifacts are considered to be the oldest archaeological finds in that part of the country. To know more about this, head on over to the full article.

The average person will probably have nothing in mind about his own solid waste except to get rid of it by flushing it. Thank goodness they didn't have johns 14,000 years ago or we might have less clues about our ancestors. Recently discovered in Oregon is the oldest native American DNA, and it's all because someone's feces lasted so long. Full story after the jump.

Does seeing numbers and operation symbols bore you out of your wits? Perhaps if you lived as an Aztec, things would be more to your liking. These ancient Americans had a complex system all their own, and they used hearts, arrows, bones, and other indigenous representations to denote expressions. Learn more math after the jump!

Who built Stonehenge? Why? When and how did they ever manage to lug around those huge bluestones and lay them in concentric patterns? Science has yet to give us any definite answers on the "who, why, and how" parts, but a pair of archaeologists are about to tackle the "when" question. More in the full article.

Now you wouldn't need a scientific degree to identify ancient brain surgery on any human remains folks. This is pretty simple, provided that your unearthed specimen comes with a head - err, skull. Archaeologists currently digging up a site in Greece said they've spotted what appears to be a woman's remains with a perforation on her skull, indicative of brain surgery - and an unsuccessful one at that. Just a little more clarifications at the full story.

Two researchers threw in their two-cents in the continuing debate over the Flores hobbits discovered back in 2004. Comparing it to modern bones, what they found suggested that the small stature of these beings were the result of a defective condition. Find out more in the full article.

Egypt was a great and powerful civilization in the Ancient World. With such a long and rich history it's inevitable that civil wars will also appear in its annals. During these civil wars, soldiers played an important role in society. Now Spanish archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a soldier who lived during the Middle Kingdom period of Egypt, when the country was reunified after years of civil war. Read more in the full article.

Scientists have found a very unique fossil that is relevant in more ways than one. The fossil belongs to a 70 million year-old ancestor of horned toads. It was found in Madagascar where the species was first thought to have never inhabited.

The find also proves that Madagascar and South America were indeed linked together during the latter years of the dinosaurs. More on this after the jump!

It was recently revealed that an almost complete fossilized human skull estimated to be around 80,000 to 100,000 years old has been unearthed in Xuchang. The skull was dug up last month after over two years of excavation.

Interestingly enough, the significance of the find is still being debated on. For more information on this find and the issues surrounding it, head on over to the full article.