For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

Scientists have identified the oldest known human remains in Northern Britain as a young girl who lived around 11,000 years ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

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 ...

Excavation of a large stone vessel from the mysterious Laos Plain of Jars has confirmed its use in an ancient funerary ...

Human history feels straightforward when seen in textbooks. A neat timeline with a clear rise from simple tools to complex ...

Researchers have identified tiny genetic “switches” that appear to play a surprisingly large role in human language ability.

The climate of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean was far more turbulent than previously thought—and a new study suggests that ...