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

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

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

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 ...

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

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

Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia ...

Did you know that during medieval times, people presumed washing hair to be an unhealthy practice and rarely preferred it?

CHENGDU -- Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a significant Paleolithic site at an unprecedented altitude on the eastern ...

CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh was put on display Tuesday in the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall while being reassembled in real time. The cedarwood boat, one of two that ...

Hunter-gatherer genes likely favoured during the last Ice Age could be helping modern-day Italians live longer life ...