Early humans followed the coast
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Learning how to live off the sea played a vital role in the expansion of early humans around the globe.
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DNA extracted from an ancient human skeleton found in Alaska suggests that the New World was first settled by prehistoric seafarers 15,000 years ago.
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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THE DISCOVERY: The bones of a human dwarf species marooned on the remote Indonesian island of Flores between 95,000 and 12,000 years ago while modern humans rapidly developed elsewhere.
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Archaeologists say they have discovered a stone block inscribed with the earliest writing in the New World.
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Shellfish discarded in a South African cave is said to be the earliest evidence of humans living and thriving by the sea.
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LONDON - Modern humans began dominating the world far earlier than thought, according to anthropologists who say they&#39;ve discovered fossils of a new human dwarf species.
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Men have always slept around and new research suggests primitive man traveled far from home to do it. Scientists have been looking into ancient sexual dalliances and human migration patterns by virtue of the
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Geologists unveiled a fossil discovery on Tuesday they believe will help resolve a long-standing mystery over whether dinosaurs ever roamed to what is now Canada's Pacific coast.
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Computer analysis of an African fossil indicates that a human-like creature walked upright six million years ago&#151;the earliest evidence of bipedalism found to date.
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Some 1,000 years ago, Viking sailors became Europe's first great maritime explorers -- setting out for places unknown, not really understanding what they were finding, and often not returning home. It was a halting beginning to what later flowered when southern European powers sailed and colonized the globe and to what is now as unremarkable as a tanker of oil or a shipment of apples leaving home port for delivery halfway around the world....
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By Meaghan Chapman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 17--BILOXI -- Reminiscent of a bustling lunch room, a collective sound of laughter and chatter echoed throughout the Beau Rivage's Coast on May 31 for the first meeting of the Coast Young Professionals.
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A land-clearing project in southern Antigua is threatening a unique ancient settlement where Arawak Indians lived from roughly 500 B.C. until the arrival of Christopher Columbus, an archaeologist said Monday.
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Headless bodies buried 3,000 years ago in the oldest cemetery in the Pacific could reveal much about the earliest settlers of Vanuatu, Fiji and Polynesia, Australian archeologists said on Friday.
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Forget a Global Positioning System or even a map. The Earth&#39;s own original satellite is the most important guide for two hikers making the first known continuous trek of the nation&#39;s western coastline.
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Modern humans appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural selection have recently remolded the human clay.
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Human remains smuggled out of the Kimberley almost a century ago are today back in Australia.