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 ...

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

Now one of the driest places on Earth, the Saharo-Arabian Desert may have been key to human migration history.

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

Archaeologists made the discovery in a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa - that was once ...

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

A new discovery at an archaeological site has led researchers to believe that humans lived in rainforests much earlier than ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

This shared Saharan human lineage took a different path from those in sub ... "Our findings suggest that while early North ...

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2. ... which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago.

The new review, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, examines over a dozen genetic studies published in the past ...