Ancient DNA reveals origin of first Bronze Age civilizations in Europe
Findings shed light on role of migration in Neolithic to Bronze Age transition and emergence of Indo-European languages.
The oldest human burial in Africa
Dating to 78,000 years ago, the burial was found by archaeologists in Panga ya Saidi, a cave site on the Kenyan coast.
Cracking the code of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Artificial Intelligence tools enable researchers to 'shake hands' with ancient scribes.
People have shaped Earth’s ecology for at least 12,000 years, mostly sustainably
New data challenge previous assessments indicating that most land was uninhabited as recently as 1500 CE and suggest path toward long-term environmental stewardship.
Nuclear DNA from sediments helps unlock ancient human history
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in extracting and analyzing Neanderthal chromosomal DNA preserved in cave sediments.
Neanderthal ancestry identifies oldest modern human genome
The fossil skull of a woman in Czechia has provided the oldest modern human genome yet reconstructed, representing a population that formed before the ancestors of present-day Europeans and...
Humans were apex predators for two million years
What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meat
