Environmental changes impacted human evolution in East Africa, suggest scientists
A drill core provides evidence of a fluctuating environment that paralleled a transitional period in human evolution in the Olorgesailie Basin, Kenya.
When good governments go bad
History shows that societies collapse when leaders undermine social contracts.
6,500-year-old copper workshop uncovered in the Negev Desert’s Beer Sheva
Tel Aviv University and Israel Antiquities Authority believe copper-producing technology was closely guarded secret.
Anglo-Saxon warlord found by detectorists could redraw map of post-Roman Britain
First burial of its kind in mid-Thames region suggests it was more important than previously thought.
Tracking Early Modern Humans in South Africa
A research team discovers new evidence in South Africa for what may be the earliest known footprints of behaviorally modern humans.
Modern humans reached westernmost Europe 5,000 years earlier than previously known
Discovery may indicate modern humans and Neanderthals lived in the area concurrently.
New funerary and ritual behaviors of the Neolithic Iberian populations discovered
Researchers from the University of Seville analyse two human skulls and the remains of a goat found in the Cueva de la Dehesilla (Cádiz, Spain).
Y chromosomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans now sequenced
Neanderthals had adopted male sex chromosome from modern humans that lived in Eurasia more than 100,000 years ago.
Stepping Out of Africa: Early Human Footprints in Arabia
Fossilized footprints provide evidence of a human presence in the Saudi Arabian desert about 120,000 years ago.
