For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known ...

About 6,200 years ago, in a village on the northern rim of the Persian Gulf, a young woman died after being struck on the head. She was probably younger than 20.

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.

In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge ...

The residents of the Moroccan site weren’t quite the Homo sapiens of today; their skulls were less rounded ... about our understanding of the human journey, he says: “Absence of evidence ...

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Archaeologists found 4 Civil War Confederate soldiers' remains in Williamsburg. Believed to have died in 1862, they were ...