A team of archaeologists has uncovered compelling evidence of prehistoric human habitation in caves and rockshelters within ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

An artificial island of sand dredged from Indonesia's seafloor has accidentally revealed evidence of a long-lost sunken world, inhabited by early humans. Scattered across the newly created island, ...

Around 30,000 years ago, prehistoric humans left Taiwan to settle on Japan's Ryukyu Islands, but scientists have long been ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played a vital role in helping Indigenous ancestors adapt as they migrated into ...

A study by Dr. Matthew S. Taylor, published in the Journal of Osteoarchaeology, reports on the reanalysis of modified human bones discovered at several prehistoric South Texas archaeological sites.

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa, ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70,000 years ago.

Researchers find surprising links which show that Neandertal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognised. Viruses account for an estimated 10-20% of the ...