When we hear the word "discrimination" we often associate it with the concept of racial prejudice, the act of hate based purely on skin color or ethnicity.
Tracing the DNA timeline, the researchers could see that the hunter-gatherers had been swiftly wiped out by the late Stone Age, in what they suspect was a very bloody and very thorough takeover. "This transition has previously been presented as
The sun rises on the Palaeolithic, 14,000 years ago, and the glacial ice that once blanketed Europe continues its slow retreat. In the daylight, a family begins making its way toward a cave at the foot of a mountain near the Ligurian Sea, in northern
Stone Age builders may have been using other materials as well, according to a new study.
The art was created long before modern humans inhabited France's Loire Valley
Humanity has spread to almost every corner of Earth, and while some peoples have continued to move, others have grown roots in one region.
Going in search of answers, evolutionary anthropologist Dr Nikhil Chaudhary relied on his observations of the BaYaka people in Congo and extensive anthropological research of other hunter-gatherer societies. He teamed up with Dr Annie Swanepoel, a ch
For many years, Gobekli Tepe was considered to be the oldest human settlement. Previously taking the title of the first temple in the world, archaeologists recently unearthed Boncuklu Tarla, which is believed to be roughly 1,000 years older than Gobe
Fighting for their existence: Incredible photographs of Brazilian rainforest tribes as they struggle to preserve their way of life
'The Sistine Chapel of the ancients': Eight-mile wall of prehistoric paintings of animals and humans is discovered in heart of the Amazon rainforest
Humans have a longstanding relationship with the sea that spans nearly 200,000 years. Researchers have long hypothesized that places like coastlines helped people mediate global shifts between glacial and interglacial conditions and the impact that t
Ancient Viking ship buried in an Iron Age cemetery to symbolise 'safe passage into the afterlife' is uncovered using ground-penetrating radar
David Attenborough's A Life On Our Planet leaves viewers sobbing as it shows how the great apes are left homeless in Borneo because of deforestation for palm oil
REVEALED: How Native Americans reached Polynesia 800 years ago by raft and interbred with islanders - centuries before European explorers arrived in the Pacific
'I was in a lost world - but modern ways crept in': Man who quit life in the West to live with a tribe for THREE YEARS saw a hunger for money take hold (and was glad he packed antibiotics)
A piece of 50,000-year-old string - the oldest yet discovered - found in a cave in France has cast further doubt on the idea that Neanderthals were cognitively inferior to modern humans.
Remains of a vast Mayan palace dating back more than 1,000 years are discovered by archaeologists in Mexico
Fossils are the most reliable way we can piece together the history of humans, but some clues have been inside us all along. The human genome can tell us where we've come from, and it's hiding more than a few surprises.
If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today?
Human progress seems nearly always to involve parallel paths. One thing doesn't just change into something better. Instead, a new way emerges… seemingly fragile, small and tenuous. But because it's a better adaptation, the old way eventually va
"Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage." - Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin, Jr.
The former "Dirty Jobs" host told Tucker Carlson he gives out a work ethic scholarship each year to graduating high school students and it gets harder each year to fill it.
The former "Dirty Jobs" host told Tucker Carlson he gives out a work ethic scholarship each year to graduating high school students and it gets harder each year to fill it.
A Spanish galleon laden with gold that sank to the bottom of the Caribbean off the coast of Colombia more than 300 years ago was found three years ago with the help of an underwater autonomous vehicle operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institut
We rarely portray Neanderthals, our close relatives, as telegenic. Museum exhibits give them wild tangles of hair, and Hollywood reduces them to grunting unsophisticates.
Three-fingered 'mummified creatures' found with elongated skulls in Peru are aliens, claims controversial Russian scientist
BREAKING: This could change the history of our migration.
Unicorns are real!
Precisely when and where did our species emerge? Anthropologists have struggled with that question for decades, and scattered clues had suggested the answer lay somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa about 200,000 years ago.
ANCIENT Egypt was once ruled by a real life giant, according to scientists who discovered a huge pharaoh.
