New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate has been revealed. New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate is revealed in research ...

The new knowledge of the rate of sea level rise during the early Holocene offers an important point of reference for scientists and policymakers, especially as we are now faced with a similar ...

Additional evidence on the isle includes stone circular alignments likely built at a time of lower sea levels, suggesting human activity potentially dating to the Early Holocene. Archaeological ...

Ancient DNA from 9,000-year-old skeletons found in South Africa reveals genetic continuity, refuting theories about waves of ...

The study found: Compared to pre-Holocene conditions (the last glacial period), the Early Holocene (11,700-8,200 years ago) was a time of warm seas, a warm and dry Pacific Northwest, a warm and wet ...

The origin of agriculture at the Yumin site occurred later than a significant increase in precipitation during the early Holocene but coincided with a substantial rise in vegetation around 8.4 ka.

Previous estimates for the total amount of sea level rise in the early Holocene varied by as much as 50 feet. We deliver climate news to your inbox like nobody else. Every day or once a week ...

Hidden in the dense greenery of southern Tongatapu, a limestone monolith named Maka Lahi—meaning “Big Rock” in Tongan—has quietly testified to a prehistoric cataclysm for thousands of years. Massive ...

So, how did they do it? Below, find out. Dire wolves are canines that lived in the Americas throughout the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs — between 125,000 to 10,000 years ago.

A new analysis of ancient DNA reveals a previously unknown lineage of hunter-gatherers who lived in what is now Colombia.