Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery of 115,000-year-old human footprints in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically at Alathar Lake. This finding challenges previous assumptions that early ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...

The Jomon people living in prehistoric Japan had "little to no" Denisovan DNA, suggesting their ancestors may not have been in contact with this now-extinct group of Eurasian humans, a new study ...

Recently discovered stone tools in Turkey suggest the presence of a bygone landmass that early humans may have used to cross into Europe. Reading time 2 minutes For many of us, when we think of land ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published Jun. 18, 2025, about migration of early humans, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of one of the study’s authors on two occasions. Her name is Emily ...