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 ...

A 2,000-year-old manuscript written in the lost Etruscan language was discovered in the most unexpected place - reused as wrappings for an Egyptian mummy. This documentary short reveals how the ...

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 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 ...

Archaeologists working on a dig site in the country of Georgia have discovered a 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone. The Orozmani Paleoanthropology & Archaeology Field School posted a video of the ...

A 146,000-year-old skull recovered near Harbin, China, by scientists decades ago has now been found to belong to the Denisovans, an extinct relation to modern humans who lived in Siberia and East Asia ...