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.
Scientists are struggling to understand how the 250,000-year-old fossil ended up in such a remote, hard-to-reach…
Only time will tell if the new name will gain traction in the scientific community and if the reassigning of old…
Sulawesi island has yielded many clues to our distant past, and now archaeologists can add a Pleistocene Homo sapiens…
The 42-foot chamber has been sealed off for 40,000 years. Researchers have already found bones and scratch marks…
Fossilized human footprints in New Mexico appear to be up to 23,000 years old, left behind by teenagers and young…
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Evidence from a Bulgarian cave suggests early humans in southeast Europe faced subarctic conditions for thousands of…
The new research suggests Denisovans—a sister group to the Neanderthals—occupied the islands of southeast Asia prior…
Ongoing research has given us a more nuanced portrait of our extinct relatives, barrel chests and all.
Dubbed "Tollund Man," the natural mummy offers a window into what life was like in Europe 2,400 years ago.
The rare bone carving was unearthed at a cave entrance in northern Germany.
The skull, hidden in a well for 85 years, only recently fell into the hands of scientists.
Researchers say the hominin has traits similar to both Neanderthals and modern humans.
For the Māori people of New Zealand, this is old news.
A 35,000-year-old bear skull found in a Russian cave hints at a ritual killing.
Some 3.7 million years ago in what is now South Africa, a human relative straddled two evolutionary moments.
The fossils date to over 100,000 years ago, which may make them the oldest known Neanderthal prints.