New evidence suggests that early humans reached the Jordan Valley at least 1.9 million years ago, hundreds of thousands of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

University of Kansas researchers reviewed ancient DNA and 23,000-year-old White Sands footprints to trace early human ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...

Ancient DNA analysis has unveiled a previously unknown group of people who resided near the land bridge connecting Asia and North America around 6,000 years ago. This discovery not only enriches our ...

Previously, scientists thought the first humans arrived in North America roughly 13,500 years ago, a theory known as “Clovis ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists' previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or more. An ...

Archaeologists working at the Orozmani site in Georgia said they found a 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone. The jawbone, found alongside stone tools and animal fossils, is one of the oldest human ...

Last August, archaeologists discovered a number of artefacts in Indonesia dating back between 1 million and 1.4 million years. The findings could transform theories of early human migrations, ...

Researchers have long debated whether human migration out of Africa was spurred by climate changes that forced the early humans to move along or by technological innovation that let them take ...