A massive study of ancient genomes has revealed that natural selection acted on hundreds of human genes throughout recent ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. Fu Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

Learn how archaeologists exploring Wogan Cavern uncovered a once-in-a-lifetime find beneath a Welsh castle, revealing Ice Age ...

Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reconstructed skull of a man who died 12,000 years ago in what is now Vietnam. (photo credit: C.M. Stimpson) Researchers from ...

"This book explores human remains as objects for research and display in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Influenced by early skull collectors such as Samuel George Morton, zealous ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ago. Led by scientists from the University of Cologne, a team of 25 ...

RABAT — A newly announced fossil discovery is further cementing Morocco’s central place in the prehistory of humanity. On Jan. 7, Moroccan and international researchers revealed the unearthing of ...

"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2007 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London"- -T.p. verso. Part I: The discovery of prehistory -- The idea of prehistory -- Mapping the human past: Prehistory ...