Wooden objects provide the most precise dating yet for a Viking settlement on the coast of Newfoundland in Canada.
Our history began looking ever more complex once geneticists revealed our ancestors picked up new DNA as they traveled across time and continents.
A 1,000-year-old grave in Finland, once thought to hold a respected woman warrior, may belong to someone who didn’t have a strictly male or female identity.
The newfound remains came from people who had lived thousands of years ago in Peru and Japan, half a world apart.
Experiments with stone lamps and torches are helping scientists see 12,500-year-old cave art with fresh eyes.
They come from a previously unknown Stone Age group that may represent a complex mashup of early members of our genus Homo.
Native Americans may have used sharpened turkey leg bones as tattoo needles between 5,520 and 3,620 years ago.
DNA from ancient bones shows humans and Neandertals were regularly mixing genes by about 45,000 years ago.
In ancient Egypt, commoners may have been mummified and then encased in mud to repair damage to the body or to imitate royal techniques used with royals.