Researchers explained that when bones exposed to high levels of heat are illuminated with specific light wavelengths, they light up with a distinctive glow.

For decades, stories about the ancient Mediterranean have centred on the grand cultures of Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Egypt. North-west Africa seldom enters the picture before the arrival of ...

In 1959, an archaeological discovery in Mexico threatened to push the timeline of human arrival in the Americas back by hundreds of thousands of years. When advanced testing dated the site between 250 ...

Human ancestors first set foot on the interior of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau around 30,000-40,000 years ago, according to new research by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This ...

Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene A scientific illustration of the Upward Sun River camp in what is now Interior Alaska. Illustration by Eric S ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge claims of a 65,000-year-old human arrival in Sahul—the ancient paleocontinent ...