Archaeologists working at the Orozmani site in Georgia said they found a 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone.The jawbone, ...

The original evolution of hominins (modern humans and their evolutionary ancestors since the split with other great apes) took place in Africa about 7 million years ago, based on the fossil record.

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the arid deserts of Saudi Arabia: human footprints that date back approximately 115,000 years. These footprints challenge previous notions about ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly around 50,000 years ago. Scientists discovered that before this successful ...

A team of Turkish archaeologists has discovered on the Aegean coast one of the most important Paleolithic sites ever ...

Stone Age tools found near the ancient Greek city of Assos, Turkey, reveal the Aegean once served as a land bridge for early ...

Over the last 20 years, genetic research has changed dramatically. An explosion of genomic data has reshaped how we understand our past. Scientists have collected genetic material from hundreds of ...

Genomic studies show Papua New Guineans are closely related to Asians, shaped by isolation, adaptation, and Denisovan ...

(Reuters) -Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch a major dispersal out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, going ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age.

Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens embarked on a major migration out of Africa and began settling around the world. But exactly how, when and where humans expanded has long been a source of ...