Introduction: The study of ancient DNA has opened windows into the past, revealing intricate details about the migrations, interactions, and…
Browsing: Prehistory
The teeth of our close cousin the Neanderthal developed at a similar rate as our own, new research shows. Raising…
One day about 120,000 years ago, a few humans wandered along the shore of an ancient lake in what is…
Scientists in France have discovered hundreds of fossilized footprints belonging to a single group of Neanderthals. Some large footprints at…
Tiny bits of twisted plant fibers found on an ancient stone tool suggest that Neanderthals were able to make and…
The world’s oldest performing arts are in Indonesia. Scientists have found hunting scenes and people with animal heads on the…
Researchers say the fossilized skull, found in the late 1970s in a cave in southeast Greece and stored since then…
In 2010, researchers reported that they had extracted the genome sequence from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in…
Humankind’s tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch as researchers in the Philippines announced the discovery of a…
In a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb in Sweden, researchers have discovered the oldest-known strain of the notorious bacterium Yersinia pestis —…
Neanderthals may not have sported the barrel-chested bodies and hunched posture we see in museums and textbooks, according…
When researchers discovered the oldest human remains ever found in Poland a few years ago, they didn’t realize that the…
Researchers have reported the discovery of the oldest known drawing in a cave on the southern coast of South Africa,…
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed an incredibly rare treasure in the Nile Delta: The remains of an ancient village, dating back…
Long before modern man came to Europe, our cousins were in full swing decorating the continent’s caves. New dating of…