Anthropology

For the first time, a machine learning technique has revealed Greek words in CT scans of fragile rolled-up papyrus

A new study suggests humans arrived in the Americas before the height of the last ice age more than 20,000 years ago

Researchers say the discovery of the earliest known wooden construction expands their knowledge of the woodworking skills of early humans that existed before Homo sapiens

A jawbone from eastern China that displays both modern and archaic features could represent a new branch of the human family tree

The decision to send hominin bones on a commercial spaceflight has raised eyebrows among paleontologists

A new technique for analyzing modern genetic data suggests that prehumans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals

Archaeologists found evidence of spices such as turmeric and cloves from ancient Vietnam, suggesting South Asians shared their culinary traditions via an ancient maritime trade route

A fossilized hominin leg shows gashes that were probably made by stone tools

Extraordinary claims about the small-brained human relative Homo naledi challenge prevailing view of cognitive evolution

Kissing probably predates Homo sapiens as a species, but the first texts documenting the beso go back to the early Bronze Age

Millennia of a rodentlike animal’s urine preserve crucial data that could help scientists understand early humans’ leap forward

Macaques using stones to open oil palm nuts can accidentally create stone flakes that look like early human tools