New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

If the route between the two major North American ice sheets didn’t fully open until about 13,000 years ago, how did early Homo sapiens travel from Alaska down into the Americas and even to ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 42,000-year-old yellow ochre stick in Crimea and Ukraine, suggesting Neanderthals possessed ...

New research reveals that early humans changed Europe’s landscapes long before farming began, using fire and hunting to alter ecosystems.

The genetic link between bones discovered thousands of miles away from each other suggests a prehistoric migration route.

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

The World as a Labyrinth” presents the artist’s ceramic cosmologies, enigmatic bronze narrative and visionary cosmic paintings.

New research suggests the origins of modern humans may have begun by the sea in southern Africa 70,000 years ago.

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

Instead, people commonly slept in two shifts each night, often called a “first sleep” and “second sleep.” Each of these sleeps lasted several hours, separated by a gap of wakefulness for an hour or ...