For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

A new analysis of crystals that formed inside one of the bones shows that the site dates back to an ice age 146,000 years ago ...

The tech tools are able to decipher and reconstruct fragments Hittite texts in a fraction of the time it has taken humans to ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are preserved? This is the question investigated by an international research team ...

As an undergraduate, I was taught that Homo sapiens was one of these branches that emerged in Africa, spread across the world ...

Human history feels straightforward when seen in textbooks. A neat timeline with a clear rise from simple tools to complex ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

Source: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann / Wikipedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 For most of our history as a species, we lived as tribal hunter-gatherers. Modern humans have been around for roughly 200,000 ...

Some extinct human ancestors and modern-day apes appear to share wrist traits that raise the question of whether our last ...