Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that ...

When Matthias Meyer began studying the ancient DNA in the 400,000 year old fossils he found in the Sima de los Huesos, or Pit of Bones cave, deep beneath the Atapuerca mountains in Spain, he was ...

Learn how ancient DNA reveals migrant women helped Europe’s hunter-gatherers adopt farming thousands of years later than the ...

Ancient DNA reveals women brought farming knowledge to hunter-gatherer communities in Belgium and Netherlands gradually.

Ancient DNA shows hunter-gatherers in parts of Europe survived for millennia after Anatolian farmers introduced agriculture.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nearly complete cranium recovered from a well in Harbin, China, dates to at least 146,000 years ago. - Hebei GEO University An ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world of the Americas. Now, a new study led by the ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...