DNA analysis reveals how ancient nomads who disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago lived

Avar societies meticulously preserved an ancestral memory

Modern humans may be losing microbial diversity, show teeth samples from Bronze Age

Higher diversity of bacteria involved in gum disease found in 4,000-year-old teeth from a limestone cave

What archaeology tells us about the music and sounds made by Africa’s ancestors

Research in music archaeology in southern Africa has just begun. Available evidence dates back from around 10,000 years ago, from the Later Stone …

New research suggests modern humans lived in Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, in Neanderthal territories

It isn’t a stretch to assume that people in the Mediterranean had access to boat technologies 54,000 years ago and used them to explore …

Neanderthals died out 40,000 years ago, but there has never been more of their DNA on Earth

Many Europeans and Asians have between 1% and 4% Neanderthal DNA while African people south of the Sahara have almost zero

‘Humans won’t go extinct; but they are at a crucial point’

Down to Earth spoke with Nathan H Lents, professor of biology at John Jay College, the City University of New York about the past, present and …

Ape-men of Flores: Gregory Forth talks about academia’s bias against testimonies of local people

Forth has concluded that a latter-day Homo floresiensis or another hominin, appears to be the best explanation for the Lio ape-man, and says he …

Ancient southern Kalahari was more important to human evolution than previously thought

Ga-Mohana was much wetter than today, with pools of standing water and waterfalls tumbling down the hillside

Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa

 These humans may have slowly adapted to life in the region’s colder climate before venturing to Eurasia and beyond

Were Neanderthals carnivores? A tooth offers new insight into their diets

Diets a topic of debate; Researchers look into zinc isotopes in molar sample  

Ancient humans may have first walked upright on trees, not land

Researchers look at chimpazees to understand bipedalism; New study contradicts earlier theories