Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs.

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 ...

Peru's first great empire left no written records. Now, archaeologists are piecing together who the Wari were with the help ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have unearthed the oldest known hand-held wooden tools ever found, and they are an extraordinary 4,30,000 years ...

The assumption has been comfortable and long-standing: creativity is a product of abundance. When ancient humans had enough ...

Prehistoric rock art site in northeast Zimbabwe showing a variety of large animals including elephant and rhino. Image ...

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