Ancient DNA has revealed Balkan ancestry in a man buried at a Byzantine village in Turkey, while evidence from his bones suggests he ate much like his neighbors, according to a study published this year. The man, about 40...
Archaeologists have uncovered 24 ancient Palaeolithic human sites in a remote stretch of north-eastern Iran, a discovery that researchers say fills a long-standing gap in the story of how early humans moved across Asia.
The findings, published in the journal...
Ancient proteins extracted from a 400,000-year-old tooth have connected three chapters of human prehistory in a single study. Researchers identified molecular evidence linking Homo erectus in China to the Denisovans and, through them, to modern humans living today.
The team...
Scientists have reconstructed more than 6,000 years of human history in South America's southern regions. The findings reveal that ancient populations were far more genetically complex and geographically mobile than archaeology alone had suggested.
The study was led by Kim-Louise...
A landmark archaeological site in Chile that shaped scientific understanding of when humans first arrived in the Americas may be tens of thousands of years younger than once believed, according to a new study published in the journal Science.
For...
A prehistoric hand stencil found in a cave on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has been identified as the world’s oldest rock art, shifting the timeline of human creativity and movement across the region. The artwork, created at least 67,800 years...
A new genetic study reveals that humans started moving pigs across the Pacific as early as 50,000 years ago, reshaping island ecosystems long before modern trade or colonial contact.
The findings, published in Science, show that these early movements introduced...
A new study offers fresh insight into the early days of European agriculture, revealing that ancient hunter-gatherers and farmers coexisted for generations as farming practices spread across the continent.
Published in Science Advances, the research reveals that the two groups...
Researchers have found evidence that people in Argentina, over 20,000 years ago, hunted and used stone tools to cut up a huge armadillo-like animal. This finding, based on marks found on the creature's ancient bones, is important. It shows...
