Anthropologist Alex Bentley tells The Conversation Weekly about his research how modelling the spread of COVID sparked new ...

A new study challenges traditional views on humanity's shift from hunting and gathering to farming, highlighting early human ...

Around the world, on separate continents that had no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming more or less simultaneously — and scientists still don't know how ...

Around the world, on separate continents that had no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming more or less simultaneously — and scientists still don't know how or ...

Scientists are studying the origins of the inhabitants of the 'green Sahara' through the DNA of two female mummies.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found ...

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic.

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals. The child's remains were ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

The remains of one of the ancient humans found at a Tunisia site named Djebba was found to have about 6% of ... During the Stone Age, humans in Europe and North Africa mostly lived as hunter-gatherers ...

During the Stone Age, humans in Europe and North Africa mostly lived as hunter-gatherers, gradually transitioning to farming and more complex societies during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age ...

The new discovery, published Wednesday in Nature, reveals that ancient humans “had rather more complex tool kits than previously we thought,” incorporating a variety of materials, said William ...