A SUDDEN population increase in Europe some 20,000 years ago forced our ancient human ancestors to battle it out over ...

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ... New Fossil Discovery Sheds Light on the Early Evolution of ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

In the 1990s, archaeologists in Poland excavated one of these settlements from 18,000 years ago called Maszycka Cave. Now, ...

adding a layer of Denisovan ancestry to the genomes of modern humans that is especially prominent in people from Oceania 1. Writing in Nature, Sümer et al. 2 report genomic data for six ancient ...