A new study found that the genomics of yams supports West Africa (the Niger River Basin) as a major cradle of crop domestication
Prehistoric Iberians created “imitation amber” by repeatedly coating bead cores with tree resins, according to a new study
A new study found that Denisovans occupied the Tibetan Plateau in the Middle Pleistocene and were adapted to this low-oxygen environment
In a new study, the changes in brain shape over the course of human evolution, considering the evolutionary relationship between humans and other primates
A new study explains that humans evolved from an ancestor not limited to tree or other elevated habitats, and sheds light on what preceded human bipedalism
A new study reports the recent discovery of most of a skull and associated remains dating to around 300,000 years ago in Hualong Cave (Hualongdong)
Researchers combining genetics, archaeology, history and linguistics have gained new insights into the history of inner Eurasia, once a cultural and genetic crossroads connecting Europe and Asia
Mysterious volcanic ash layer from 29,000 years ago traced to volcano in Naples Researchers from the University of Oxford have traced the origin…
Humans settled in southwestern Amazonia and even experimented with agriculture much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers
Most paleolithic household activities are thought to have taken place around hearths or fires: let’s see the Middle Paleolithic site El Salt in Spain