Ancient humans

Chinese scientists have successfully sequenced ancient human DNA dating back some 14,000 years, hinting at their potential links with Asian peoples.

Police officers searching a home for drugs discovered more than a thousand ancient treasures dating back to the 12th and 18th centuries, with some even dating back to the Roman era.

Researchers combined techniques from archaeology and paleontology to study the evolution of the brain.

A historic cathedral city was home to some of Britain's earliest humans more than half a million years before writer Geoffrey Chaucer immortalized it in verse in his Canterbury Tales.

The Wallacean islands, in what is now Eastern Indonesia, have a long and rich history of being home to modern humans going back thousands of years.

The ritual included painting the walls surrounding the burial site, and the skeletons were later revisited and reburied.

The circle, named Kostenki 11, was about 40 feet in diameter with no obvious entrance.

Ballgames played an important role in the civilizations of ancient Central America.

"The quantity of fish we have found and studied are unprecedented in the central Sahara," researcher Savino di Lernia told Newsweek.

The findings demonstrate that Australia's earliest known human population consumed a range of plant foods, including those that required processing.

"In recent years we have seen increasing evidence that Neanderthals were more sophisticated than previously thought," researcher Emma Pomeroy said.

Researchers say that the engravings in the cave are the oldest of their kind ever discovered in the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia.

A similar journey would have been made by humans over 65,000 years ago.

Researchers say the discovery shows the human body was used for social expression as much in the Pleistocene as it was today.

"As far as we know, this is the only example of this practice anywhere in the world," said Sara Juengst from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

The palace site, known as Kemune, was until recently covered by water from a reservoir, according to archaeologists.

Researchers say skull found in a Transylvania cave is clear evidence of interpersonal violence among ancient Europeans.

Remains belonging to one of the biggest birds that ever lived have been discovered in a cave in Crimea.

The carvings were made on a strange formation within the crater known as the "Rain Snake" dyke.

Cannibalism was a highly profitable survival strategy for our ancient ancestors, according to a study.

The 160,000-year-old jawbone suggests the extinct hominins had adapted to life at high-altitude.

Researchers studied the remains of Neanderthals found in a cave in southeastern France.

An experimental study suggests humans can improve technology over generations without necessarily having a sophisticated understanding of it.

Ancient rocks suggest extreme temperatures drove their demise.

The research shows our ancient cousins were "no dummies," one scientist said.

Humans have been baking bread for almost 15,000 years—longer than archaeologists previously thought.

The ancient skull fragment is "a unique opportunity to learn more about the biology and diversity of our ancestors and their relatives and, ultimately, about their evolution."

Dried meat may have offered a long-lasting source of food in a changing rainforest.

Scientists now believe humans stalked and then confronted a giant ground sloth thousands of years ago in New Mexico.

The tracks of two adults and a child, researchers say, were left some 13,000 years ago.