Ancient news stories

A woman known as Kolyma1, who lived in northeastern Siberia about 10,000 years ago, shares about two-thirds of her genome with living Native Americans.

What would happen if the hands of time were turned back to an arbitrary point in our evolutionary history and we restarted the clock?

The studies suggest a land bridge connected the West Indies with South America 30 million years ago, allowing the slow-moving animals to reach the islands.

Two children’s milk teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age.

Archaeologists just assumed that women made the pottery at Chaco Canyon 1,000 years ago. Then they started thinking like cops—and things got interesting.

The Aboriginal woman whose healing power is described as ‘a miracle’ comes from a long family lineage of healers.

A collaborative study led by archaeologists, geneticists and museum curators is providing answers to previously unsolved questions about life in sub-Saharan Africa thousands of years ago.

Identifying the movements of extinct species from millions of years ago can provide insights into ancient migration routes, interaction between species, and the movement of continents.

Charred material found in South Africa suggests humans digested starch long before farming.

After a treacherous volcanic eruption during the Bronze Age, curious humans and their canine companions hiked closer to the volcano, where they left footprints in the fine-grained volcanic ash.

The discovery may explain how these buildings have survived for so long in earthquake zones.

There are 319 officially recognized archaeological sites in Sarasota County, and 66 of them are likely to contain human remains.

This is the first time archaeologists have found tracks of people crawling.

New research reveals that routes we didn’t consider possible may have been walked long ago – meaning the story of how we got here could need a little rewriting.

‘A slight decrease in food may explain a reduction in fertility,’ says Dr Anna Degioanni.

Proto-humans’ decision to start walking on two legs is what took us from living in the trees to designing space rockets and it may all have started with a fantastical series of events.