Denisovans were a type of ancient human that for a long time were known only from their DNA and teeth. But recent fossil findings and analysis is now revealing what these people looked like and that ...

Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

In a dark and unexplored cave in South Africa, one former daydreaming student found fossils that proved a new type of human being existed in the region.

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of human presence dating back to around ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.

Current evidence suggests that humans had the capacity for spoken language at least 130,000 years ago. Ever the ...

For more than 200 years, Indiana University has been at the forefront of disciplines that explore what makes us human, producing world-class musicians and performers along with leading scholars in ...

A fish rots from the head”—this ancient proverb reminds us that when leadership loses its moral compass, the entire system begins to decay.

The scientists at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleosciences are working toward finding Tajikistan ancestry through skeletons found in Vadnagar; explaining the Tibetan, South Asian and Central Asian ...

For modern residents of the Levant, the "Red Sea Trough" usually brings a brief, dusty transition between seasons. But ...