The discovery of 2.4-million-year-old stone tools and butchered bones at a site in Algeria suggests our distant hominin …
The stereotype of a typical Neanderthal life is that it was extraordinarily difficult, violent, and traumatic. But a…
Around 250,000 years ago, two Neanderthal children were exposed to excessive levels of lead in what is now France,…
Neanderthals cared for their sick and wounded, and new research suggests this well-documented behavior was more than…
Some 73,000 years ago in what is now South Africa, an early human used a red ochre crayon to draw a cross-hatched…
In the 1980s, scientists learned that all humans living today are descended from a woman, dubbed “Mitochondrial Eve,”…
A re-analysis of a three-million-year-old fossil suggests Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominid, had children…
Our species, Homo sapiens, weren’t the first humans to leave Africa—not by a long shot. The remarkable discovery of a…
Using computers and MRI scans, researchers have created the most detailed reconstruction of a Neanderthal brain to…
The Bajau people of Malaysia and the Philippines are renowned for their free-diving abilities, often working eight-hour…
It’s just a lone, boney middle finger, but the scientists who found it say it’s the oldest directly dated fossil of our…
Compared to modern humans, Neanderthals had heavy eyebrows, huge noses, and large, long faces that bulged forward.…
Our species made its debut some 300,000 years ago. During the preceding millenniums, our continent of origin underwent…
Genetic analysis suggests two populations of Denisovans—an extinct group of hominids closely related to…
Around 74,000 years ago, a massive caldera erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggering a prolonged and…
A DNA sample from a 10,000-year-old skeleton discovered in Gough Cave near Cheddar Gorge, England, offers a remarkable…
Archaeologists have discovered sophisticated stone tools in India dating back some 385,000 years. That’s all sorts of…
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered the partial jawbone from what appears to be a modern human. Dated to between…
A re-analysis of a 50,000 year old Neanderthal skull shows that, in addition to enduring multiple injuries and…
A international team of researchers has completed one of the most detailed analyses of a Neanderthal genome to date.…
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