Exploration goes beyond the pursuit of knowledge
Modern human DNA appears to preserve traces of two ancient human populations that scientists have never identified directly from ancient genomes. One of those lineages…
Several early hominins crossed the muddy edge of a lake in northern Kenya around 1.43 million years ago. Their footprints survived long after the water…
Archaeologists working at Üçağızlı II Cave in Hatay, southern Türkiye, have uncovered evidence that may reshape how researchers understand the transition from Neanderthals to modern…
A sealed prehistoric cave near Fureidis, south of Haifa, is giving archaeologists a rare chance to study human life in the Levant around 300,000 years…
A few ancient teeth from a cave in southern Poland have given researchers a rare genetic portrait of Neanderthals who lived north of the Carpathians…
On a floodplain in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift, early Homo sapiens left behind stone tools, animal bones and human remains that open an unusually close window…
Chinese scientists have recovered the first molecular data from Homo erectus, using proteins preserved inside 400,000-year-old teeth from China. The discovery, published in Nature, does…
A quiet detail is beginning to reshape how we understand the earliest settled communities. At Karahantepe, one of the key sites of the Taş Tepeler…
Early dogs identified in Turkey are now reshaping what scientists know about dog domestication. New ancient DNA evidence from the Pınarbaşı site reveals that dogs…
