Rapanui people likely believed the ancient monoliths helped food grow on the Polynesian island, study reveals

The rarity of the find suggests that the human teeth were imbued with profound symbolic meaning for the people who wore them

Modern humans evolved in Africa, and we now know that human groups from all over the continent contributed to that process. A group of scientists says that means it is time to stop arguing about where in Africa humans 'really' came from

Geneticists, archaeologists, and anthropologists from North America, Europe, Central Asia, and South Asia analyzed the genomes of 524 never before-studied ancient individuals

Archaeologists have recreated ancient brewing techniques to learn how beer kept an empire afloat

The fossil site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa yielded two partial skeletons

Scientists use deep learning for the first time ever to account for human evolution

Research to raise a few eyebrows: Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution

Researchers discovered that a dog found in a grave dating to the start of the last century had been sick for a long time and had been cared for

Spear-throwing gave homo sapiens better eye-hand coordination, smarter brains