A researcher who has lived and worked with hunter-gatherer tribes said we can learn from premodern societies how to live ...

An international research team led by Curtin University has used prehistoric feces to better understand how molecular ...

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Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Volcanic eruptions are excellent timekeepers because they happen very quickly, geologically speaking. As hot magma erupts, it ...

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a ...