An international team of scientists, including the University of Wollongong (UOW), has found compelling evidence that a ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...

Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first ...

The earliest known wooden construction in the world was found at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia. This amazing structure has been dated by the archaeologists to about 476,000 years ago, and is ...

In the depths of northern Zambia, a significant archaeological discovery has emerged from beneath Kalambo Falls, altering our understanding of early human ...

A remarkable discovery of 476,000-year-old wooden logs at Kalambo Falls reveals that early humans were reshaping their ...