Jayur Mehta, an associate professor of anthropology at Florida State University, is part of a research team that found ...

Indigenous people of the Andes were the first to domesticate the potato, making the starch-rich crop a dietary staple for ...

An image from 1750 shows Tomoe Gozen, a female samurai who lived in the 12th century, killing an enemy. . | Credit: Heritage ...

But new research suggests something more fundamental may also be at play: the shape of the human skull itself. The rest of ...

For Lauren Garvey, a third grade teacher at Love Elementary School, the path to the classroom wasn’t a straight line — but it ...

Thousands of years ago, in Central Oregon's high desert, Indigenous communities left evidence of their textile-making prowess ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Penn State Director of Athletic Medicine Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli passed away on Monday at age 68. He ...

Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

For a long time, Neanderthals were imagined as bulky carnivores of the Ice Age: heavy-browed hunters who lived on slabs of ...

Many of today's villages and towns in Central Europe trace their origins to settlements that emerged after the collapse of ...