ancestral history

New research finds that, while the Knights of the Round Table has won global fame, most medieval English chivalric and …

Archaeologists have learned a lot about our ancestors by rummaging through their garbage piles, which contain evidence of …

When the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, using DNA collected from ancient bones, it was accompanied by the …

For most of our evolutionary human history — for most of the time anatomically modern humans have been …

Researchers have found evidence that an unremarkable prehistoric burial mound near Bordeaux, in southwest France, was re-used by …

Statistical analysis of fossil data shows that it is unlikely that Australopithecus sediba, a nearly 2-million-year-old apelike fossil from …

Even thousands of years ago people wore clothing with colorful patterns made from plant- and animal-based dyes. Chemists …

Tulane University researchers, documenting the discovery of dozens of ancient lowland maya civilization cities in northern Guatemala through …

Millennia ago, ancient farmers cleared land to plant wheat and maize, potatoes and squash. They flooded fields to …

Southeast Asia is one of the most genetically diverse regions of the planet. But scientists never had a …