In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia ...

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its inhabitants bringing iron pyrite to the area specifically to enable them to light ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

Hidden inside a French cave, archaeologists discovered geometric engravings made 57,000 years ago—long before Homo sapiens reached Europe. The find challenges what we know about Neanderthal ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago - ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.