Sundaland was a vast Southeast Asian landmass that existed for most of the last 2 million years, exposed during glacial ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Thus, the Torah tells the Jewish umma, and the Qur’an tells the Muslim umma, the importance of picking yourself up and going (Hajj in Arabic, Hag in Hebrew) with masses of other members of your umma, ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...