For more than a century, scientists have pieced together the story of how humans first reached North America through ancient ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

Plotting the gradual advancement mankind is a tricky thing for archaeologists. Researchers are forced to draw from rare artifacts, using them to make rough estimates of when certain groups of ...

For decades, historians firmly believed the Maya were the oldest civilization in Mesoamerica until a 1938 jungle expedition rewrote history. Deep in the muddy swamplands of Veracruz, explorers ...