A study by an international team of researchers determined that carved stone tools, also known as Levallois cores, were used in Asia 80,000 to 170,000 years ago

A legal battle over a 10,600-year-old ancient skeleton has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it was related to a Native American tribe

The reconstruction could potentially shed new light on how this ancient human moved and breathed

Curiously, some snippets of Neanderthal DNA pop up more often in modern human populations than others

New research shows that an ancient retrovirus—HK2—is more frequently found in drug addicts and thus is significantly associated with addiction

Evidence suggests that stone mortars from Raqefet Cave, Israel, were used in brewing cereal-based beer millennia before the establishment of sedentary villages and cereal agriculture

New archaeological research has found that Homo erectus, an extinct species of primitive humans, went extinct in part because they were "lazy"

Despite over a century of intense study, we still know very little about the people buried at Stonehenge or how they came to be there

Our species' ability to occupy diverse and "extreme" settings around the world stands in stark contrast to the ecological adaptations of other hominin taxa

Two competing theories about the human occupation of Southeast Asia have been debunked by ground-breaking analysis of ancient DNA extracted from 8,000-year-old skeletons