As boisterous teenagers wage bloody beast wars in virtual universes at a clamorous downtown Seoul Internet cafe, a handful of men, oblivious to the din, stared transfixed at an ancient, slow-paced, ...

The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that, the story of humankind heads down many different paths, some more ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...

An ancient child with a mysterious evolutionary background represents the oldest known case of humanlike tooth growth in East Asia, researchers say. The child’s fossilized upper jaw contains seven ...

Researchers have completed the first whole-genome analysis of ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia Study identifies at least three major waves of human migration into the region over the last 50,000 ...

Whole skeleton of a ~8,400-year-old individual from Qihe cave, Fujian, China. This individual’s southern ancestry can be found along the coast of mainland southern China and islands in the Taiwan ...

The largest-yet analysis of ancient DNA in Africa, which includes the first ancient DNA recovered from members of the medieval Swahili civilization, has now broken the stalemate about the extent to ...

HOUSTON, July 18, 2013 — Elephant populations in Southeast Asia have declined steeply over the past 30 years, but the news is better in India and Sri Lanka, where numbers are stable. There the problem ...