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

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

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

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

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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 ...

A new DNA study reveals that dark skin was common among early Europeans for much longer than previously believed. Pale skin became prevalent only around 3,000 years ago. The research suggests that ...

Early avocado farmers left a lasting mark on the development of agriculture. Safaritravelplus via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 Thousands of years before avocados graced supermarket shelves or ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ago. Led by scientists from the University of Cologne, a team of 25 ...

Some 60,000-year-old wild Sichuan pepper seeds unearthed at the Mengxihe Site in Ziyang, Sichuan province, have helped shed ...