The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Images capture the remarkable variety of petroglyphs etched into rock across a wide swathe of land, from Mongolia to the ...

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

Researchers argue that as ancient hominins developed the ability to control fire, they would have changed ...

Discovery in Suffolk dates back 400,000 years, pushing timeline for controlled fire-making back by at least 360,000 years - ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old student, was exploring the woods in Montignac in Dordogne, southern France, when his dog named ...