As resistance increased, humans began moving into high-risk areas. Around 14,000 to 13,000 years ago, people started living ...

In a discovery that reshapes our understanding of early human capability and economic behavior, archaeological evidence from ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and Europe, new research of this largely unexplored region reveals. Subscribe to ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...