Two landmark genomic studies have unveiled unprecedented details about prehistoric human migrations, including the longest ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier than some recent theories suggested. By tracing maternal DNA lineages, the ...

The Heritage Commission Wednesday announced the most recent archaeological discoveries made in the north of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, revealing evidence of early human migrations from Africa to ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

The story of Neanderthals has long been told in fragments, isolated bones, scattered tools, and DNA strands recovered from distant corners of Eurasia. Now, in a dimly lit cave in southern Poland, ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists’ previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or more. An ...

A newly reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is offering rare insight into the earliest migrations of ancient human ancestors — and a Southern Connecticut State University ...

The Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile has long been the crown jewel of evidence for the early peopling of the Americas, widely accepted as proof that humans arrived long before the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new archaeological study reveals that Turkey’s Ayvalık region once formed a land bridge between Asia and Europe. (CREDIT: ...

An artist rendering of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain during the Pleistocene. Credit: University of Colorado Denver Home to some of the richest evidence for the behavior and culture of the earliest clearly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...