More than a quarter million beads found in a tomb with female skeletons were used to decorate the women's ceremonial dresses, ...

Researchers Unearth 10,600-Yr-Old Spirit Cave Mummy’, Reveal Modern Humans Came to America Earlier Than Thought The genome ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

Scientists measured a chorus wave emerging from an unexpected place, and confirmed a key piece of a theory about how these ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown human relative from a 1.4-million-year-old fossilized jawbone, reshaping our ...