Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Argentina, South America. Between 50,000 to 10,000 years ago modern humans reached all continents. Past studies hypothesized that early humans ...

KROMDRAAI, South Africa (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled the first evidence on Tuesday that early humans co-existed in Africa 300,000 years ago with a small-brained human-like species thought to ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Think of rainforests and the picture is inevitably one of a dark and forbidding realm where life is abundant, yet ...

Historians have shown that, during the 1800s, beads produced in Venice were a key commodity exchanged for ivory along the ...

Exploring the captivating world of early African metallurgy unveils a treasure trove of information about Africa’s significant role in the initial development of metalworking technologies. By ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --The extraction and analysis of milk-specific proteins from ancient materials, including dental calculus, has allowed scientists to uncover the origins of dairying in Eastern Africa.