Aizawl: Radiocarbon dating of a skeletal sample recovered from Lamsial Puk, a cave near Farkawn village in Mizoram’s Champhai ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

A team of researchers recovered ancient human mitochondrial and nuclear DNA directly from a red-painted calcite crust on the ...

SEATTLE — As NASA maps out a strategy to return bits of rock and soil from the martian surface to Earth, some scientists say the most intriguing red planet samples lie in underground caverns. NASA is ...

A major challenge in the study of human prehistory is linking cultural artifacts in the archaeological record to the human ...