For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...
An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...
Excavation of a large stone vessel from the mysterious Laos Plain of Jars has confirmed its use in an ancient funerary ...
Morning Overview on MSN
A submerged cave on the Yucatán just gave up an 8,000-year-old skeleton — one of the oldest human burials ever found anywhere in the Americas
Roughly 200 meters inside a flooded cave between Tulum and Playa del Carmen, resting on a low sediment dune about eight ...
Before this recent discovery, only a handful of the jars had been found to contain bones or ash, and it seemed unlikely that so many massive stone vessels would have been carved solely for burial ...
EarlyHumans on MSN
How ancient humans crossed deadly Ice Age landscapes
Modern humans evolved in Africa before beginning one of the greatest migrations in history. Small groups of Homo sapiens ...
The climate of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean was far more turbulent than previously thought—and a new study suggests that ...
Researchers have identified tiny genetic “switches” that appear to play a surprisingly large role in human language ability.
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