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 ...

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 ...

The peer-reviewed paper has been published in the journal eLife. Paleoanthropologists have once again sparked a debate after ...

British archaeologist Douglas Baird has spent 30 years excavating across Türkiye, and highlights the site of Mendik Tepe in the country’s southeast as a key site for understanding early human history.

A documentary entitled “The Lost Neanderthals”, which was aired on Wednesday 3rd September on BBC4, featured Gibraltar and the work being carried out in the Gorham’s Cave Complex by the Gibraltar ...

A larger selection of stone tools was unearthed at Old Park, Canterbury (UK). Credit: Alastair Key / CC BY 4.0 Archaeologists have uncovered solid evidence that early humans not only settled in ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced in August in the journal Nature, began with a Valentine’s Day trek seven ...

Deep in a Georgian cave, archaeologists have uncovered a 34,000-year-old mystery that’s rewriting our understanding of early human behavior. Stone tools from Dzudzuana Cave contain traces of indigotin ...

The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported by evolutionarily ancient brain mechanisms, according to a new study from ...