Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the study of the first humans on Earth, who lived approximately 2.75 ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another surprising finding from this study concerns the ancient Jomon people from the Japanese archipelago and the ...

Introducing tropical forests in prehistory, history, and modernity -- Tropical forests : natural history, diversity, and potentiality as theatres of human adaptation and negotiation -- Cradle under ...

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...