A stunning discovery in Roman Britain has revealed fingerprints left on liquid gypsum used to prepare bodies for burial, ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

A study scanned genomes from over 450,000 people to find individuals who carry rare archaic versions of DNA changes once ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

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.

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

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