Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

The notion of living to the fullest by grabbing on to life and holding it tight can be traced to ancient Greece. Our longstanding research into the ways that Greeks, from ancient times to the present ...

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of human presence dating back to around ...

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.

Current evidence suggests that humans had the capacity for spoken language at least 130,000 years ago. Ever the ...

An interdisciplinary study published in Nature reconstructs over 2,000 years of population history in Argentina's Uspallata ...

Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

A diver just found 8,000-year-old human remains in a flooded Mexican cave, and they may hold the secrets of an ancient ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

For some, this status was reached when we attained a certain level of technological complexity, while others view the emergence of abstract thought as the rubicon of modernity – although a new study ...