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

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

The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...

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

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

La Brújula Verde reports that an extensive genetic study of human remains found at the site of Shimao in Shaanxi Province is ...

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...

A University of Arkansas archaeologist is part of a team that discovered the first example of ancient plague DNA in domesticated livestock.

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

A study reveals a 6,000-year-old population in Colombia that left no identifiable descendants, raising new questions about ...