Buller, together with Ph.D. students David Nora, Ioannis Oikonomou and Dominik Rogall from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our ...

A warrior buried centuries ago in Siberian permafrost has emerged with his weapons still at his side and the remains of a ...

Ancient DNA from China’s vast 4,000-year-old Shimao settlement is revealing how one of East Asia’s earliest complex societies was organized. Researchers found that its people were largely descended ...

A new skull-based analysis of Neanderthal brains suggests that these ancient hominins’ range of intelligence largely ...

Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans.

Stress and mental exhaustion aren't new – in medieval times, they were prevalent. And the wisdom of the Middle Ages about how ...

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

Scientists have linked Denisovan DNA to the "Dragon Man" skull, giving ancient relatives a physical form. Fossils found ...

Permafrost holds an extraordinary molecular record of ancient life — and we are only now learning to read it, just as warming ...

It is a term that appears as a matter of course in textbooks and television specials alike. People who chip stones to make tools, live in caves, and gather around fires. It exists in many people's ...

The story of this ancient patient begins in 1994, when archaeologists excavated a burial ground on the remote Ukok Plateau in the Altai Mountains. Preserved in the permafrost, the remains belonged to ...