Ancient DNA from a megalithic tomb near Paris reveals a dramatic population collapse followed by the arrival of entirely new ...

The settlement of coastlines and the use of marine food resources, often collectively referred to as coastal adaptations, feature prominently in global ...

A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

New research uncovers potential genetic advantages–and disadvantages—linked to having red hair. Here's what's behind this.

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

The 12 newly designated geoparks are located in China, France, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, the Russian ...

Archaeologists have debated the nature of this so-called Neolithic decline, but ancient DNA extracted from a collective tomb ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many populations have historically ...

Understanding of Neanderthal prehistory in Europe is changing rapidly, thanks to several sets of remains discovered in Poland ...

Ancient DNA from a tomb near Paris reveals a shocking prehistoric reset: one population vanished and was replaced by ...