Mud never lies,” added University of Arizona archaeologist Vance Holliday, whose new work has turned a century of hypothesis ...

A 2021 paper in Science rewrote the timeline of human activity with human footprints found at the National Park in New Mexico dated to 23,000 ... Reference: Pigati JS, Springer KB, Honke JS, et al.

A fossilized human finger bone that’s 85,000 to 90,000 years old was found in the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia, ... this finger fragment may be a massive revelation in the human history timeline.

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a timeline of when that occurred and when ancient humans left Africa.

Ancient footprints upend timeline of humans’ arrival in North America. New evidence adds to work showing people made these prints sometime between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago ...

By geologists’ current timeline of Earth’s 4.6-billion-year history, our world right now is in the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago with the most recent retreat of the great glaciers.

Late-Holocene human footprints, at least 2,000 years old, in volcanic ash and mud in Nicaragua. The Anthropocene could mark an official end to the 11,700-year-old Holocene Epoch. Credit ...

Research into a series of footprints discovered in White Sands National Park has provided further evidence on the timeline of human activity in the Americas. A 2021 paper in Science rewrote the ...