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 ...

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

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...

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 ...

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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 ...