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The 85-million-year timeline of human evolution

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human evolution is, stretching back millions of years to whe...

What Is the Oldest Story Ever? Gather ‘Round, Folks.

Some of the Last Remnants of Ancient Civilizations

Archaeologists Discover a 10,000-Year Human History Hidden in the Pyrenees

Carbon-14 dates show that people repeatedly occupied high Pyrenean landscapes throughout the Holocene. The high Pyrenees may look like one of Europe’s last untouched wildernesses,...

The Greatest Migration Story Never Told

Rare 8,000-Year-Old Rock Shelter Captures a Turning Point in Human History

A Catalan rock shelter preserves a rare record of the transition from hunter-gathering to farming. For thousands of years, people repeatedly returned to a rock shelter above the Mo...

This Cave in China Just Rewrote 120,000 Years of Denisovan History

The findings include bones and tools that hint at the ancient human relative's biology, diet, and lifestyle.

Y-Chromosome Bottlenecks and Making Peace with the Awful Human Past

DNA-based unravelling of history is one of the great amazements of our time:   - Birds are dinosaurs!  - Most of us are partly Neanderthal!  - The humans who actually killed off Ne...

New Fossil Study Challenges the Classic Story of Human Evolution

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural barriers were broken. Human evolution is often present...

Holy Sh*t History: The Great Famine

History’s Craziest “Against All Odds” Story?

If the entire history of Earth was beautifully condensed into just 24 hours, giant dinosaurs would…

If the entire history of Earth was beautifully condensed into just 24 hours, giant dinosaurs would...

Scientists Have Accidentally Stumbled Upon A Whole New Species Of Human. This Expert Says It’s Rewriting Early Human His...

DNA analysis revealed that the "Dragon Man" skull unearthed in China had genetic similarities to the finger bone of a Denisovan found in a Siberian cave in 2008. The post Scientist...

Objects Displayed In Museums With Absolutely Unhinged Histories

Unidentified “Ghost” Population Contributed DNA To The Ancestors Of All Modern Humans

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new computational method can find traces of ancient hominin ancestry in modern humans without needing archaic reference genomes. This method has r...

From gendered sacrifice to ancient politics: DNA lifts shroud on early Chinese civilisation

Thousands of years ago, a handful of burgeoning civilisations were forming the earliest cultures of what would evolve into China. Among these peoples were the Shimao, who construct...

В ДНК человека нашли «память» о предках, которых мы не знаем

Мы привыкли думать, что историю человечества можно прочитать по костям и орудиям. Археологи копают, находят останки, сравнивают их с уже известными образцами и постепенно складываю...

A Lost Human Lineage May Have Left a Genetic Legacy in People Today

Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans. For much of the 20th century, human evolution was often pictur...

Things No One Ever Thought Would Happen… Until They Did

The Most Famous People Born in Each Decade in European History

Thousands of Years of Human History Unearthed in the Trent Valley

The exhibition reveals how prehistoric communities lived, adapted, and left traces across the Trent Valley. Beneath the Trent Valley, artifacts, pollen, animal remains, and layers...

How humans evolved to be twice as big as our ancestors

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually smaller than us, in both height and body mass. Columnist Mich...

Ancient Humans May Have Evolved a Remarkable Trick to Survive The Last Ice Age

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