We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

In this video I am going to look into what fossils can reveal to us about the hybridization that occurred with early humans during the Late Pleistocene in Western Eurasia. I have spoken many times now ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

Knowing the weight of a commodity provides a way to value goods in the marketplace. But did a self-regulating market even exist in the Bronze Age? And what can weight systems tell us? Researchers ...

Washington could leverage the Baku-Jerusalem relationship to contain Iranian geopolitical ambitions. Although pushed out of Syria, Iran, as a revisionist state, will continue to challenge U.S.