New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...
Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...
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50,000 years of island-hopping pigs reveal ancient human migration
Learn how pigs spread across Pacific islands, what their DNA reveals about ancient human journeys, and why their legacy still ...
Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...
Researchers in Israel led by Tel Aviv University have uncovered commercial-scale viticulture in ancient Byzantine and Early Islamic settlements dated to the 4th to the 9th centuries. In a paper, ...
Thomas Hart, assistant professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University, examines the origins of food in the ancient ...
Matthew Williams, academic affiliate assistant professor of biology at Penn State (left), and Christian Huber, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, are part of a team that used sophisticated ...
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