Archaeologists have long pictured prehistoric hunters taking down mammoths and other megafauna using the atlatl, a handheld spear-throwing device that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity and ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

A former employee of JPMorgan Chase has filed a lawsuit in New York accusing senior executive Lorna Hajdini of months of alleged sexual abuse, racial harassment and intimidation inside the workplace, ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is headed for a historic victory in West Bengal and a third consecutive term in Assam, the Congress-led United Democratic Front is set to win power in Kerala, and the ...

In a sweltering tropical rainforest on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, I started to appreciate why archaeologists and anthropologists had long ignored ‘jungles’ in their search for ...

We provide global assessment of the possible link between Pleistocene hominin arrival and island extinction. The existing records on islands around the world do not support a significant and ...

This piece is part of a series of essays on alcohol history. You can read more here. Gazing around the globe at a broad history of human intoxication, there are moments where, from a distance, an ...

Whew. What a year. Whether you're an old hand at this mobile gaming lark or new to the thrills and spills to be had on your phone, 2006 has been a great vintage. From action-adventures to puzzlers to ...

Striding bipedalism is a key derived behaviour of hominids that possibly originated soon after the divergence of the chimpanzee and human lineages. Although bipedal gaits include walking and running, ...