Photo: Courtesy of Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology. The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology on Wednesday ...

Well-preserved genomes show a “rare” leprosy strain thriving in ancient Chile, rewriting when and where Hansen’s Disease ...

A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

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Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much earlier than previously believed. A new study using radiocarbon-dated mud ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...

Mud never lies,” added University of Arizona archaeologist Vance Holliday, whose new work has turned a century of hypothesis ...

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Further evidence has emerged that 8,000 years ago, women had at least as much status in society as men, at least in one of the few settlements from the time.

Ancient bones reveal how early Iberian people managed livestock. A new study shows two distinct herds: some grazed freely, ...