Scientists recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls for the first time. Refined, the method could help link prehistoric ...

Researchers have, for the first time, recovered ancient human DNA directly from cave walls, with one key sample coming from a small red painted mark in Portugal. The finding sugge ...

A desert adventure turned dangerous when the crew chased hidden ruins, ancient caves and the Grand Gulch Mine on the Arizona Strip. They fought 40–60 mph winds, got grounded by a storm, rappelled into ...

Pigment sampling at a claviform rock art figure in Tebellín, Spain. (Alberto Martínez Villa/Bossoms Mesa et al., Nat. Commun.

Two new studies published in the journal Science are reshaping what scientists understood about how dogs became so physically ...

Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are preserved? This is the question investigated by an international research team ...

A new study led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward explains how low-oxygen burial conditions lead to human brain preservation for thousands of years.

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of ...

Stable isotope methods play a key role in reconstructing important issues such as ancient human diet, migration, the origin and domestication of plants and ...