Isotope analysis of limestone cave deposits indicates repeated humid periods in the Saharo-Arabian Desert over the past eight ...

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

That stability, however, was disrupted when early farming groups from southwestern Europe ... from sub-Saharan populations at ...

The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

Ancient rocks reveal there were several humid spells in Arabia’s past, which might have given early hominins a route out of ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

This shared Saharan human lineage took a different path from those in sub ... "Our findings suggest that while early North African populations were largely isolated, they received traces of ...