Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

Researchers in Vienna found three fireplaces from the coldest period of the Ice Age, also the most mysterious.

The new review, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, examines over a dozen genetic studies published in the past 18 years to indicate an initial branching of humans about 135,000 years ago ...

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

This discovery has major implications for our understanding of human migration out of Africa. The fossil, now called Apidima 1, is not only much older than the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils in ...

The partial jawbone from a human ancestor nicknamed “Pink” is helping rewrite the history of hominin migration into Western ... features similar to modern Homo sapiens. However, a 1.2 to ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion.

A Denisovan jawbone found off Taiwan's coast shines light on their expansive range across Eurasia. DNA extraction was not ...