The study of ancient DNA has revolutionised our understanding of human history, enabling scientists to decipher complex population dynamics over tens of thousands of years. By analysing genetic ...

A groundbreaking discovery from ancient DNA has solved a longstanding puzzle regarding two prehistoric individuals, revealing ...

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

While few of us today know how to start a bonfire without matches or a lighter, learning to make fire was one of the most critical developments in human history. New evidence suggests humans figured ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analyzed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever found. Dated to 480,000 years ago, it’s more than 30,000 years older than any ...

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

For most of human history, straight, well spaced teeth were the norm, not a luxury that required years of metal and elastic ...