For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the ...

For only the second time, researchers have obtained the full genome of a Denisovan, a group of ancient humans who lived in Asia. The DNA was extracted from a single 200,000-year-old tooth found in a ...

Archaeological sites older than the Roman Empire and the pyramids can be found in many US states. These sites shed light on the first humans who arrived in North America. Some are closed to the public ...