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
The soil at the early Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük in Turkey offers a distinct signal for following the management of animals there
The modern human face is distinctively different to that of our near relatives and now researchers believe its evolution may have been partly driven by our need for good social skills
New evidence also shows extra mixing between Papuans and one of the two Denisovan groups, suggesting that this group actually lived in New Guinea or its adjacent islands
A new study, published in PNAS, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalith tombs on Ireland and in Sweden
A new study reveals the consumption during the Upper Paleolithic of Portuguese crowberry (Corema album): the samples were found in Cova de les Cendres
An international team has revealed the first example of Palaeolithic figurative cave art found in the Balkans, at the Romualdova Pećina site
The remains of a new species of human has been uncovered in the Philippines: the species, Homo luzonensis, is named after Luzon Island
Sorghum, a cereal used to feed livestock and make alcohol has been damaged over the last 6000 years by humans, with a damage to genes and reduced varieties