The damaged cranium of a Pierolapithecus has been put together virtually and compared with hominids past and present.
Some 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals were hunting lions in Europe, scientists say.
The fossilized footprints in New Mexico are at least 21,500 years old, corroborating a momentous 2021 result.
Unearthed in Zambia, the 476,000-year-old timber construction redefines our sense of early hominin ingenuity and…
An ancestral human species faced a startling population bottleneck and teetered on the brink of extinction around…
Rock art figures in Gua Sireh Cave have been dated to around the 18th century.
After collecting dust for half a century, a superlatively ancient whodunnit has entered into the spotlight.
New evidence from a cave in South Africa suggests Homo naledi, a distant human ancestor, was more complex than…
An MIT study has found that lawyers can read legalese better than the average person, but that doesn't mean they…
4,000-year-old remains in Somerset and Cumbria carried the bacteria that causes plague.
Southern Europe was apparently a climate refuge during the frigid millennia when these people lived.
Artifacts discovered in a rock shelter suggest Homo sapiens was launching stone projectiles in Europe 40,000 years…
Two hippo butchery sites and the largest hominin tooth ever found may change the story of the ‘Oldowan toolkit.’
Two archaeological sites in Brazil are revealing the genetic ancestry of some of the continent’s earliest humans.
A genetic analysis of bones and teeth revealed kinship between a group of Neanderthals.
Three new papers detail the population genetics of Eurasian people spanning over 10,000 years.
The new fossil suggests the Denisovans—a lost human species—could live in a wide range of habitats.
The complex funerary rituals of the 9,000 year-old city of Çatalhöyük are revealed in a new study.
The revised estimate, based on nearby volcanic ash, fits in nicely with most models of modern human evolution.
A batch of archaeological evidence is now the first to be confidently linked to the extinct Denisovans.