A study has provided fascinating insights into how ancient humans interacted with Amazonian ecosystems centuries ago.

In the 1970s, archaeologists unearthed prehistoric human remains from a deep underground shaft in Somerset, England. The ...

At least 37 people from Early Bronze Age England were butchered and likely cannibalized before being thrown down a shaft ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

A genetic analysis of six people buried in a Moche tomb around A.D. 500 revealed that two teenagers were sacrificed to their ...

This would help explain why the women buried there possessed valuable costume jewelry, including glass beads, silver coins, ...

Ancient genomes reveal a narrow time window for Neanderthal and human interbreeding, raising new questions about their shared ...

For a study published in the journal Antiquity, researchers analyzed more than 3,000 bones and bone fragments attributed to dozens of individuals from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren ...

Now, new analysis of some of the few bones that remain has found that people living 5,600 years ago in Ukraine may not have ...

Archaeologists have uncovered further evidence of a pre-colonial “ garden city ” in Bolivia where ancient Amazon people lived ...

An analysis of ancient human and animal remains suggests that pre-colonial peoples in the Bolivian Amazon likely fed ducks more than a 1,000 years ago, a study reports. The research, published in ...