Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

New research reveals early humans ate processed plant foods, challenging long-held beliefs behind the Paleo Diet.

Walking through a supermarket today, you'll find the same vegetables everywhere. Carrots, potatoes, broccoli. Tomatoes lined ...

Around 6,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities across Eurasia were settling down and living with livestock — and the animals’ diseases came along for the ride. A massive genomic analysis of ...

Source: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann / Wikipedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 For most of our history as a species, we lived as tribal hunter-gatherers. Modern humans have been around for roughly 200,000 ...

The study of ancient DNA has revolutionised our understanding of human history, enabling scientists to decipher complex population dynamics over tens of thousands of years. By analysing genetic ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

It is fair to say that the family tree of ancient humans is not written in stone. Just take the case of the Denisovans, the enigmatic ancient humans who were, until recently, known only from a few ...

Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early ...