When researchers digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.6-million-year to 1.5-million-year-old hominin from Ethiopia, the result wasn't the familiar look of early Homo erectus. Instead, the fossil ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For decades, a theory based on the dating of organic matter (sampled from the Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile) dated the oldest American ...

The Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile has long been the crown jewel of evidence for the early peopling of the Americas, widely accepted as proof that humans arrived long before the ...