The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...