Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific community's best guess for the likely path of early human migration. While walking ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...