Discovering Our Ingenious Early Human Ancestors
A globe-trotting archaeologist helps unearth clues to what made our prehistoric ancestors the ultimate survivors.
New fossils shed light on the origin of ‘hobbits’
Researchers find ancestors of ancestors.
New research counters claim that the ‘Hobbit’ had Down syndrome
Status confirmed as a fossil human species.
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
Conflicting theories of Mungo Man debunked.
Lucy had neighbors: A review of African fossils
Review confirms co-existence of multiple early human species during middle Pliocene.
‘Pristine’ landscapes haven’t existed for thousands of years due to human activity
An exhaustive review of archaeological data from the last 30 years provides details of how the world's landscapes have been shaped by repeated human activity over many thousands of...
New support for human evolution in grasslands
A 24-million-year record of African plants plumbs the deep past.
Ice age bison fossils shed light on early human migrations in North America
Study dates the first movements of bison through an ice-free corridor that opened between the ice sheets after the last glacial maximum.
Scientists develop new insights on dog domestication
Man's best friend may have emerged independently from two separate (possibly now extinct) wolf populations that lived on opposite sides of the Eurasian continent.
Migration back to Africa took place during the Paleolithic
A piece of international research led by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has retrieved the mitogenome of a fossil belonging to the first Homo sapiens population in Europe.
Skeletal differences between Neanderthal and modern human infants
Many of the distinctive morphological characteristics of Neanderthals were already apparent at birth.
Prehistoric Site in Florida Confirms Pre-Clovis Peopling of the Americas
Stone tools, butchered mastadon provide evidence of occupation 14,550 years ago.
Archaeologists find world’s oldest axe in Australia
Archaeologists from the Australian National University have unearthed fragments from the edge of the world's oldest-known axe, found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Digging the Secrets of Ancient Maya Gardeners in the Yucatan
Archaeologists are unearthing new clues to the changing face of ancient Maya gardening in Mexico.
Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA
The Leonardo Project: Illuminating the art, life, characteristics, talents, and brilliance of one of humanity's most extraordinary figures.
Hominins may have been food for carnivores 500,000 years ago
Tooth-marks on Pleistocene Moroccan femur indicate hominin hunting or scavenging by large carnivores.
