The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan ...
The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that, the story of humankind heads down many different paths, some more ...
National Geographic Explorer Peter Campell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.
Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...
Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...
Long ago, a substantial ancient Greek population from the island of Crete lived in the ancient city of Daedala, located in ...
An ancient child with a mysterious evolutionary background represents the oldest known case of humanlike tooth growth in East Asia, researchers say. The child’s fossilized upper jaw contains seven ...
A new study has uncovered a direct genetic link between ancient practitioners of the Hanging Coffin burial tradition and the ...
The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...