A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

A new study uncovers how early humans in Greece used stone tools for butchery, offering rare insight into life 430,000 years ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

In 2021, researchers working in New Mexico published a paper that contributed to what remains one of the most controversial ...

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...

At roughly 43,000 years old, the dot may be the oldest human fingerprint on record and also one of the earliest symbolic objects ever found in Europe. The fingerprint, made with the red mineral ocher, ...