A landmark site in the peopling of the Americas is several thousand years younger than we thought. While that means very different things about the site itself, it doesn’t change the big picture as ...
Remembering the African leader after a Brussels court this week ordered a retired Belgian diplomat stand trial for his 1961 ...
Women of Kenya’s Turkana community often walk miles each day in scorching heat to collect water for their animals and personal consumption. Credit: Julien Ayroles/UC Berkeley. F ...
Ancient DNA reveals that the Goths of eastern Europe, some of whom would ultimately sack the city of Rome, may have been a mix of peoples from three continents ...
Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa more than 3 million years ago. The species is named Lucy’s hunter, because it ...
Ancient Greek and Roman historians captivated their audiences with accounts of bizarre tribes dwelling on the periphery of the known world. Their customs were odd and their appearances even more ...
Virginia college students who belong to federally-recognized indigenous tribes and reside outside the state will have to wait another year before state lawmakers again consider granting them ...
On this date 30 years ago, A Tribe Called Quest’s debut album People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm was officially certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, a ...
A group of African tribes took part in a second taste test featuring well-known American candy. The reactions revealed sharp contrasts in sweetness tolerance, texture preference, and flavor ...
Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Milwaukee Public Museum recently returned 67 ancient Menominee ancestors that its archaeologists excavated in the 1960s.