Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

With an opposable big toe resembling a human thumb, the fossilized Burtele foot suggested its owner was a skilled climber, ...

Now, in a study published Tuesday called "Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified," the scientists announced that ...

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

It's the end of a nearly 100-year-old mystery. Using DNA-analysis, scientists have identified an ancient human relative nicknamed "Dragon Man", new research showed. It all started with a ...

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution were studied for lead content, which was surprisingly high. To see the effect of lead on the human brain then and now, researchers ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

New analyses have overturned a long-taught chapter of Japanese prehistory: fossils from a Toyohashi quarry once hailed as the ...

A new genetic study of the ancient Chinese city of Shimao reveals a strictly patrilineal society that practised ...