A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

Evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the ...

Found at the Takarkori rock shelter in Libya, these mummies, the remains of female herders, belong to a population that defies the genetic expectations researchers had based on the region’s history.

A neolithic warrior gets a face thanks to modern tech. At first, it was just a cluster of bone plates peeking from the ...

Humans, not climate, sparked the farming revolution through migration, cultural exchange, and competition, according to a new ...

At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It's a sign that ...

A new study challenged the belief that environmental factors were solely responsible for the shift from hunting and gathering ...

TEHRAN - The third season of archaeological excavations has officially begun at Chogha Golan, a significant Neolithic site in ...

Researchers in Turkey just uncovered what they say is the "oldest bread in the world." Discovered in the Neolithic site of ...

We cannot predict the finer details of a particular outbreak or a particular storm, but we can often identify when these ...

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may ...