A groundbreaking genetic study has revealed that Italians who reach 100 carry significantly more ancient Western hunter-gatherer DNA than their younger counterparts. The research, published in ...

A remarkably preserved Paleolithic dwelling has been discovered deep inside La Garma Cave in northern Spain. Sealed by a ...

While life emerged around 4 billion years ago, human history—from the earliest humans approximately 2.5 million years ago to the present day—represents a relatively short period in the scale of ...

A set of mysterious grooves on a cave floor in France has turned out to be far more than abstract art. Archaeologists now ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

The controlled use of fire was a landmark event for the human evolutionary lineage, not only for cooking and providing ...

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

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

After spending 50 years in New Mexico, leading decades of cultural resource management projects around the state and publishing archaeological research as affiliated faculty with New Mexico State ...

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

Ancient hunter-gatherer genes may hold the secret to living past 100, according to a new study of Italian centenarians and their DNA.