The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

Grease is the word – at least, it was for Neanderthals living in what is now Germany some 125,000 years ago. New research ...

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

Recent discoveries from a cave in present-day Germany suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans shared European landscapes ...

The absence of needles should not be confused with the absence of functional clothing. Prehistoric sunscreen The study also highlights the use of ochre by Homo sapiens, which it says offered ...

The new dating of an object found decades ago in Poland reinforces the idea that early humans in Central Europe had ...

Excavation uncovers evidence of 4 ancient human species, obsidian tools dating back over 300,000 years - Anadolu Ajansı ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.