Hidden beneath the bright dunes of White Sands and the dry flats of the Utah desert, ancient human footprints have been lifted out of the sand and into one of archaeology’s fiercest debates. Pressed ...

Ancient footprints discovered in New Mexico show that humans were walking across North America between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, researchers said Thursday. “We’d been suspicious of the age for a ...

Humans were living in what is today the United States thousands of years before archaeology says they did, according to new data derived from very old footprints. Researchers from the University of ...

For years, the Turkana Boy has placed Kenya on the world map as a key site in the story of human evolution. Now, there is even more evidence supporting Kenya as a cradle of humankind. The recent ...