Remarkably well-preserved remains of a 1,000-year-old individual from a cave in central Mexico provided researchers with an unprecedented glimpse into the ancient human gut microbiome. Now called the ...

Discovered in modern-day Turkey at the Karahantepe site, it could be the first-ever carved depiction of a human face.

Nail-biting and nose-picking have probably been around since our ancient ancestors walked the Earth, but these habits don’t leave much of a physical trace. Tooth-picking, on the other hand, does – or ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

Equally remarkable was the discovery of a fragment of ochre-painted sheep leather, confirmed through proteomic analysis, dating back 651 years. A basketry fragment from another nest proved to be from ...

A new find in the Ayvalık region of western Turkey suggests that prehistoric humans somehow "walked" across what is now a ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

Introducing tropical forests in prehistory, history, and modernity -- Tropical forests : natural history, diversity, and potentiality as theatres of human adaptation and negotiation -- Cradle under ...