An archaeologist just overturned a major piece of evidence that humans reached South America before most of North America.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists digitally reconstructed the fossilized skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, to aid their research ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists in Southeast Asia have unearthed ancient boats and tools that challenge the established timeline of human civilization. These artifacts, dating back tens ...

New research challenges a key archaeological site in Chile, raising fresh questions about when humans first arrived in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new reconstruction (center) of the crushed Yunxian 2 skull (right) found in China is seen with another squashed skull (left) ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

Credit: Geología Valdivia New findings from Chile challenge a foundational idea about the earliest settlement of the Americas ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

Ancient human skull fossils (stock image). A human skull found in 1990 is now changing scientists' understanding of human evolution. In a study published in the journal Science on Sept. 25, ...