The exact relationships between all these early human relatives are still a bit murky. It could be that H. erectus is ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is a man on a mission: Travel across the world in the way the earliest humans out of Africa did. Lately, he's been hiking and paddling along Alaska's southern ...

Ancient DNA reveals women brought farming knowledge to hunter-gatherer communities in Belgium and Netherlands gradually.

Proteins extracted from six teeth of early humans residing in what is now China around 400,000 years ago provide new insights into how ancient genetic material may have made its way into modern humans ...

Researchers extracted ancient proteins from six archaic humans and found something in common with other extinct relatives—and ...

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity on a humble field in Barnham in the U.K. county of Suffolk. According to Chris Stringer of ...

“The calcite crystals inside the bone acted like a natural clock, allowing us to refine the age of the site,” Zhao explained. Previously, researchers thought that the tools found in Lingjing were ...

The dry deserts of north-eastern Saudi Arabia were once wet enough to host vibrant communities of animals – and researchers have just found evidence that ancient hominins lived there too. “This paper ...