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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

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

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

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

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering ...