People living in North Africa today can trace their ancestry back to a unique human population that lived in the Sahara at a ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...

Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal ...

Scientists reconstructed the face of a prehistoric human using a 16,000-year-old skull in southern China offering clues about ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

"The Yahuai Cave burial site is the second Paleolithic burial site found in China," Xie noted, according to News China. He ...

Why would prehistoric humans carry their youngest children deep into the winding, pitch-black recesses of ancient caves?

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has turned traditional thinking on its head by ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...