Hunter-gatherers cooked and ate carb-rich rhizomes.

Members approve a bylaw change that could prohibit someone guilty of misconduct from attending a conference, following uproar over the presence of a known harasser at a meeting earlier this year.

Researchers’ simulations suggest that small population sizes and inbreeding made Neanderthal populations vulnerable to chance fluctuations in population size.

This ancient red pigment came from underwater.

Warming temperatures threaten reindeer herding and the preservation of cultural artifacts in Mongolia.

Mitochondrial DNA and other factors place our ancestors in southern Africa 200,000 years ago.

Infants may have been drinking animal milk from vessels for thousands of years.

A discovery of Neanderthal footprints reveals insights into the hominin’s social structure.

Modern-day populations in India descend from a mixture of peoples living thousands of years ago in South and Central Asia, including the Bronze-Age Indus Valley Civilization, two studies reveal.