Team Says Humans Lived In North America Earlier
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Archaeologists said Wednesday they had found evidence that humans lived in North America at least 50,000 years ago, far earlier than has been thought.
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The ancestors of humans began walking upright while they were still living in trees, a theory suggests.
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In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.
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Scientists say mammoth and camel bones unearthed in northwest Kansas that date back 12,200 years could be part of "one of the most important archaeological sites in North America."
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A group retracing the steps of explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark moved into North Dakota on Friday, finding the weather nearly as much of a challenge as the explorers faced 200 years ago.
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It's not something you speak out loud, actually. My daughter Katie, whose spent her semester abroad at the ancient University of Glasgow (founded 41 years before Columbus discovered America), informed me that ...
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A new archaeological discovery suggests humans migrated to the hemisphere far earlier than previously thought.
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Divers making dangerous probes through underwater caves near the Caribbean coast have discovered what appears to be one of oldest human skeletons in the Americas, archaeologists announced at a seminar that was ending on Friday.
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Reenactors following in the footsteps of the Lewis and Clark expedition are encountering weather and experiences that are making the modern journey an adventure in its own right.
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On a remote Indonesian island, archeologists were astonished to discover a new, small human species that walked the earth just 18,000 years ago. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Five thousand years ago, a band of ancient people built homes on the edge of a stream in what is now the Denver suburb of Parker.
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American Indians are reconnecting to their heritage through a game that was invented by their ancestors.
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The study shows that a small group of early humans returned to Africa after first migrating to the Middle East.
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Scientists have unearthed a new species of hobbit-sized humans that may have lived as recently as 12,000 years ago, sharing the earth alongside modern-day man.
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Spring in the Arctic is arriving "weeks earlier" than a decade ago, research shows.
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Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas.
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.