A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists' previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or more.

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

An old South African skull and an ancient settlement along the Don River in Russia lend crucial support to the idea that modern humans spread from Africa across Eurasia only 50,000 years ago. African ...

New genetic analyses of ancient human skeletons from western Remote Oceania are shedding light on the complex history of ...

Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America. A famous archaeological site in southern Chile may not be as old as scientists ...