Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.
Not much is known about the mysterious, prehistoric Châtelperronian people, but they did leave behind some tantalizing clues.
Our closest cousins carried some of the same pathogens we did, many of which are still around today.
Estimated to be over 10,000 years old, the kilometer-long wall was likely used for hunting.
From Bronze Age brain surgery to Neanderthal cave etchings, here's what we learned about the human story this year.
Neanderthals were genetically predisposed to be early birds, and they may have passed on those genes to some humans living today, new research found.
Thousands of genomes spanning 40,000 years reveal how Neanderthals have lived on through Homo sapiens .
Some 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals were hunting lions in Europe, scientists say.
La Roche-Cotard in France was sealed in the ancient past, indicating another Homo species was responsible for the figures.
New evidence from a cave in South Africa suggests Homo naledi , a distant human ancestor, was more complex than previously thought.
Humans got a gene related to nasal height from mating with Neanderthals, new research finds.
Artifacts discovered in a rock shelter suggest Homo sapiens was launching stone projectiles in Europe 40,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Our extinct sister species was hunting and butchering big game, according to new research.
Two archaeological sites in Brazil are revealing the genetic ancestry of some of the continent’s earliest humans.
Human remains found in two caves are more than 13,500 years old.
A genetic analysis of bones and teeth revealed kinship between a group of Neanderthals.
Pääbo’s 40-year career has yielded new technologies and a narrative of who we are as a species.
The cave contains more than 1,000 artworks spanning over 50,000 years.
The new fossil suggests the Denisovans—a lost human species—could live in a wide range of habitats.
Stone tools belonging to Neanderthals were also found at the 210,000-year-old site.
