A submerged bridge made by ancient humans has been discovered in a Spanish cave, revealing human colonisation of the western Mediterranean happened much earlier than previously thought. Archaeologists ...

New tests have confirmed that a set of fossilised human footprints in New Mexico are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old, making them the oldest evidence of human life in the Americas. Additional ...

A fresh analysis of tools from several Southeast Asian sites is prompting researchers to rethink how—and when—early humans crossed vast stretches of ocean. The evidence, published in Journal of ...

A new study led by Todd Surovell, an archaeologist at the University of Wyoming, together with a team of collaborators from Chile, Austria, and the United States Geological Survey, has called into ...

An archaeologist just overturned a major piece of evidence that humans reached South America before most of North America.

Research into a series of footprints discovered in White Sands National Park has provided further evidence on the timeline of human activity in the Americas. A 2021 paper in Science rewrote the ...

Our species mated with the Neanderthals much later than thought. New research reveals that Neanderthal genes entered our own DNA within the past 50,000 years, rewriting the story of how Homo sapiens ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...