The Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in the east of Oregon may be the oldest discovered human settlement in Norrth America, but could ...

Far off the coast of Brittany, a line of stone blocks lies hidden beneath the Atlantic, preserved where dry land once met the ...

Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Brazil’s oldest people may be revealing hidden biological secrets behind extreme human longevity. A Viewpoint published on January 6 in Genomic Psychiatry by Dr. Mayana Zatz and colleagues at the Huma ...

Australia's Finke River, an ephemeral waterway in the Northern Territory, is considered one of the world's oldest, with a ...

A nearly 10,000-year-old pyre discovered in Africa has revealed the country’s oldest cremation. In a study published in the ...

Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...

​​Rivers may seem as old as the hills, but they have life cycles just like other natural features do. Many grow and make ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...