Learn how ancient DNA and tooth enamel are rewriting England’s medieval history and showing connections between climate ...

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a beautifully preserved face of a 1.5-million-year-old human ancestor—the first complete Early Pleistocene hominin cranium from the Horn ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The remains of a prehistoric child were removed from an underwater cave in Mexico four years after divers stumbled upon the well-preserved corpse that offers clues to ancient ...

The study of ancient DNA has revolutionised our understanding of human history, enabling scientists to decipher complex population dynamics over tens of thousands of years. By analysing genetic ...

Pigs across the Pacific can trace their ancestry to Southeast Asian domestic pigs that accompanied early Austronesian-speaking groups as they island-hopped across the region, according to a new ...

New research reveals how humans began moving pigs across the Pacific 50,000 years ago, reshaping ecosystems throughout the ...

The team set out in their handmade canoe. (Yousuke Kaifu/University of Tokyo) (CN) — The nearly 25-foot longboat cuts through the waves with ease. The vessel, also called a dugout canoe, was ...