Footprints preserved in mud were made by humans thousands of years before any people were thought to be in the Americas, a team confirms.
A study of 10,000-year-old skeletal remains from burial sites in northern Chile suggests violence was a regular part of life among ancient hunter-gatherers.
Ancient DNA reveals for the first time where workers buried at Machu Picchu more than 500 years ago came from within the lost Inca Empire.
Bones from an extinct relative of elephants offers a panoramic view of the state's prehistoric life, researchers say.
New findings expand the range of livable regions in interior South Africa nearly 200,000 years ago, during an ice age called MIS6.
The remains of an ancient human female suggests some modern Alaska Natives still live where their ancestors did 3,000 years ago.
Geochemical analyses on copper artifacts from southern Africa reveal centuries of previously unknown cultural connections in the region.
New findings connect archaeological findings to today's attitudes, tracing modern gender bias back to the Middle Ages and beyond.
An excavation has unearthed the earliest example of one particular type of brain surgery in the Ancient Near East.
The newly discovered fossil clarifies our understanding of the evolution of a family of apes that includes modern gibbons.
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