New article suggests wetter climates may have allowed Homo sapiens to expand across the deserts of Central Asia by 50-30,000 years ago
Recent archaeological finds of ancient preserved apple seeds across Europe and West Asia combined with historical, paleontological, and recently published genetic data are presenting a fascinating new narrative for one of our most familiar fruits
A unique bark shield, thought to have been constructed with wooden laths during the Iron Age, has provided new insight into the construction and design of prehistoric weaponry
Anatomically modern humans at the Klasies River Cave, in South Africa’s southern Cape, were roasting and eating plant starch
Neanderthals and modern humans diverged at least 800,000 years ago, substantially earlier than indicated by most DNA-based estimates
A new study, concerning the cave of Bàsura at Toirano and its fossil traces, identifies crawling behaviours from around 14,000 years ago
The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA behind in ancient chewing gums, which are masticated lumps made from birch bark pitch
A new study points out that European speakers of Uralic languages like Estonian and Finnish also have DNA from ancient Siberians
A new study suggests that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ornaments
A new study tells the genetic history of the domestic horse over the last 5,000 years by using the largest genome collection ever generated for a non-human organism