Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

A huge study of ancient DNA reveals the origins of the Yamna, who spread across Eurasia around 5000 years ago, showing they ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

The bones belonged to dozens of hunted species, the institute said, including woolly mammoths. The skeletons of at least 13 mammoths were discovered at the site, dating to a period researchers ...

Archaeologists from the Institute of History of Material Culture at the Russian Academy of Sciences have discovered four settlements dating back to the Late Neo ...

Sheep have been part of human life for over 11,000 years. First domesticated in the western Fertile Crescent, their impact ...

Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky, some animals show remarkable cognitive abilities that may rival our own.

These are difficult times for New York farmers. And they’re getting older -- 60% of New York’s nearly 58,000 farmers are 55 ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate ...