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

From Kurzgesagt, an hour-long animated music video that shows all of human history in an hour. So here’s an experiment: e ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

For most of human history, large societies have drawn clear lines between people who belong to the in-group and those who do ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

An innovative technique used in a study of Neanderthal hearths—places where fires were created—has been described by researchers as a "major" development in archaeology, one that could help shed light ...

The jumpy parasites have followed our ancestors around for at least 25 million years, adapting along with us through major upheavals. By Carl Zimmer Along our evolutionary journey from monkey-like ...

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I've been reading the Seamus Heaney translation of "Beowulf." As a young graduate student in English, I thought I might become a medievalist, so I took a course in Old English and read some of ...