Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

A 4,000-year-old burial site in Sudan contains the first evidence of a mysterious funeral ritual that could rewrite parts of ...

Archaic humans living in the Levant around 120,000 years ago were highly selective hunters who carefully targeted prime-aged female wild cattle, rather than engaging in the mass hunting events that ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

George McJunkin (1851–1922) was an African American cowboy, rancher and amateur archaeologist whose extraordinary discovery transformed the understanding of prehistoric human history in North America.

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

Several SDSU students are embarking on a week-long research expedition to the Channel Islands with the goal of potentially ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague. The findings show zoonotic diseases began spreading around 6,500 years ...

New research shows early humans relied on many plant foods. They ground seeds, cooked roots, and used simple tools long ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...