More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

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The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

A hidden marvel beneath the earth's surface has emerged near Stonehenge, revealing a story of ancient ingenuity that has left archaeologists astounded.

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, ...

Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just beginning to grasp their genetic data.

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.