Young chimpanzees enjoy some fruit. (Martin Harvey/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images) Humans and chimpanzees are remarkably similar, despite the major differences in how our societies have panned out.

Archaeologist Roberto Rosado-Ramírez has mapped 96 small house mounds inside the walled center of Aké, a Maya city in ...

More than 30,000 years ago, people associated with one of Europe's major Paleolithic cultures (the Gravettian) were more ...

A tree or a small plant growing wild, in my view, is architecture in every sense of the word, capable of teaching us lessons ...

Ariel Horovitz is an Israeli historian and sociologist whose career blends rigorous academic training with cultural education ...

Thousands of years ago, Florida’s coastline extended as much as 100 miles out beyond its present edge. Artifacts from that ...

Having a relationship with the community enables honest writing, whether I am offering a critique or documenting situations.’ ...

The number of women on the commission has increased from five to eight, including five laywomen, raising the total number of ...

Credit: Alberto Martínez Villa Ancient DNA from cave walls offers clues to prehistoric visitors’ sex and ancestry, potentially allowing scientists to investigate who used these spaces without ...

The identified victims are Néstor Albino Acosta, Pascual Delfín Ludueña, Claudio Norberto Nardini, Cecilia Alicia Pessina de ...

More than 30,000 years ago, people associated with one of Europe's major Palaeolithic cultures (the Gravettian) were more interconnected than ...

When Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, an Orthodox Jew who lives in Jerusalem, first arrived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 2011 to research Amish communities, she had only visited ...