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 ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

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 ...

For nearly a century, 41 ancient human skeletons from the Guar Kepah shell middens remained in boxes and display cases across ...

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

Scotland now has its first curator of osteoarchaeology who will enhance the care of the country’s archaeological human ...

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

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