A 14,000-year-old genome scraped from a prehistoric tooth found in southern Siberia is now the oldest known…

Archaeological evidence excavated in western Idaho suggests humans were in the region well over 15,000 years…

Prehistoric Britons traveled impressive distances to attend celebrations at monumental sites like Stonehenge,…

There’s an ongoing debate among archaeologists as to which route the first settlers of North America took to reach…

Archaeologists working in the Shangchen region of China have uncovered dozens of stone tools, the oldest of which…

In a study that’s already attracting considerable controversy, a research team says it has found evidence of human…

It’s a veritable certainty that North America’s first people arrived via the Bering Land Bridge, but less certainty…

The carcass was remarkably well preserved, but something was clearly wrong. A rounded hole through the interior…

A genetic analysis of ancient and modern humans suggests that the ancestors of Native Americans entered the North…

Figuring out when humans first arrived in a location is surprisingly tricky. Sometimes, you find a nice chunk of…

An ancient skull found in a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos has revised our conceptions of when…

There's still a lot we don't know about the first human colonization of the Americas, particularly the exact timing,…