New discoveries from Denisova Cave include ancient DNA extracted from sediments and sophisticated jewelry dated to around ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

Did you know that homo sapiens were not the only type of ancient "human" to exist? During most of the past 2 million years or so, there were several species of hominids on Earth at any given time. You ...

The latest discoveries in Central China's Henan province are filling critical gaps in understanding East Asia's role in human evolution during a key period of the Paleolithic era, shedding light on ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, ...

When our ancient ancestors made the journey out of Africa and took their first steps in Eurasia, they came face-to-face with Neanderthals for the first time – and boy, did they hit it off. In fact, ...

The Coal Seam Fire—so named because it sits along a coal seam—was set alight during the Plateau Fire, which hit the region in the summer of 2018. A group of researchers are scheduled to speak at the ...