That is at least four times older than the previous record-holder—a small 100,000-year-old stretch of Neanderthal ... hope to recover ancient DNA. And Sima de los Huesos—already an important site for ...

European Neolithic hunter-gatherer groups traveled the sea to make their home in Africa, according to a new archaeological ...

The logic seemed straightforward: lighter skin allows more ultraviolet light to penetrate, helping the body produce vitamin D, a nutrient essential for human ... DNA extracted from Britain’s ...

A new paper on ancient DNA (aDNA) posits that every person on the planet is descended from hunter-gatherers in Africa. The study was published last month in the journal Nature. In the paper ...

Researchers compared DNA extracted from Neolithic human remains found across Britain ... A facial reconstruction of Whitehawk Woman, a 5,600-year-old Neolithic woman from Sussex.

7,000-year-old findings in Ratina Cave ... has revealed evidence of human activity dating back to the late Neolithic period, approximately 3,000 years earlier than previously believed ...

With a rich history, it is of international importance for the history of the Neolithic Period and features the oldest-known life-sized human sculpture, Urfa Man, dating back to around 9000 BC.

Ancient DNA collected from the remains of Stone Age ... gradually transitioning to farming and more complex societies during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, which occurred between roughly 10,000 ...