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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Two fossil skulls found in central China are prompting fresh debate over when they lived – and where they belong in the human family tree.

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

A diver just found 8,000-year-old human remains in a flooded Mexican cave, and they may hold the secrets of an ancient ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Pets play an important role in many people’s lives. In the UK, six out of ten households have at least one pet, dogs being our most common companions (assuming we don’t count fish individually). But ...

Charred hazelnut shells discovered at an archaeological site in Cornwall have pushed back the date for the arrival of the Neolithic period in the region by at least a century. New radiocarbon dating ...