Footprints dating back 800,000 years have been uncovered on a beach in Norfolk, England, offering one of the oldest direct records of early human presence in northern Europe. Discovered at Happisburgh ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Learn how archaeologists are using ancient charcoal deposits to understand what life was like for ancient humans 800,000 ...

They might just rewrite the history of human migration.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...