A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

In a surprising twist, Japan's so-called oldest human fossil, 'Ushikawa Man,' has been stripped of its title and redefined as ...

A 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Gona, Ethiopia reveals new details about the first hominin species to disperse from Africa. Summary: Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a ...

A newly reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is offering rare insight into the earliest migrations of ancient human ancestors — and a Southern Connecticut State University ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists’ previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or more. An ...

Sometimes travel reveals something extraordinary. A view, a flavor, a moment that lingers long after the suitcase is unpacked. And occasionally, it reveals something much older than any civilization ...

Genes make us who we are—but are they shaped by chance, natural selection, or something else?

Oldest American settlers: Fresh analysis suggests some of the earliest human sites in the Americas date between 13,000 and 20,000 years ago, with possible origins in Japan. Out of Africa: A review ...

The Outdoor Heritage Museum in Oquossoc Village, operated by Historic Rangeley, features exhibits exploring human life, culture and survival in the Rangeley region from the end of the last ice age to ...