An archaeologist just overturned a major piece of evidence that humans reached South America before most of North America.

A fresh analysis of tools from several Southeast Asian sites is prompting researchers to rethink how—and when—early humans crossed vast stretches of ocean. The evidence, published in Journal of ...

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Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

(CNN) — Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Monte Verde is certainly ancient, but as it turns out, evidence of human occupation at the site is not quite as ancient as it was once believed to be ...