For over 60 years, scientists believed they had found some of the oldest human fossils in Japan in the Ushikawa district. But ...
Bones were exhumed and passed around to members of the community, who used the remains of their ancestors in a surprising number of ways.
The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
They might just rewrite the history of human migration.
A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human movement just before an ...
A new study testifies to how hominins at Gesher Benot Ya’akov took advantage of their environment to fuel fires, showing ...
Learn how archaeologists exploring Wogan Cavern uncovered a once-in-a-lifetime find beneath a Welsh castle, revealing Ice Age ...
Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being dredged for a construction project This is the first time fossils of this ...
NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...