New methods extracted ancient DNA from sediments in Siberia’s Denisova Cave, revealing both Neanderthal and Denisovan presence. Alongside the DNA, archaeologists uncovered Paleolithic jewelry, ...

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About 30,000 years ago, in the steppes that characterized Europe during the last Ice Age, a hunter-gatherer of the Gravettian ...

Archaeologists found a 30,000-year-old ancient toolkit in Czech Republic. The tools reveal hunting, recycling, and survival ...

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

University of Barcelona researchers analyzed factors that contributed to the long life of Maria Branyas Morera, who died at ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

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Far in the rolling highlands of north China, a serene basin once held one of mankind’s best survival stories. The Nihewan Basin, a dry semi-arid region filled with ancient lakebeds, has been a bonanza ...