How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

Saini Samim receives funding from the Melbourne Research Schorship provided by the University of Melbourne. She has also received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Turkana Basin ...

An international research team co-led by the University of Oulu has successfully dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to between 7 and 10 million years ago using a new Argon-Argon ...

To ascertain what crops were cultivated and establish a chronology using modern dating techniques, officials initiated a project titled 'Origins of Agricultural Economies in southern India.

Re-dating volcanic ash layers above fossils in Ethiopia shows that early Homo sapiens lived at least 230,000 years ago. The findings narrow the gap with Moroccan fossils and strengthen the case for an ...