A groundbreaking study of the Skhūl I skull challenges our understanding of early human evolution.

The discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia has flung open the door into a new chapter of ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began around 6 million years ago and gave rise to at least 18 species, ...

A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

We break down some common myths about our early human ancestors—and what makes our species, ‘Homo sapiens,’ so different from them.

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

According to the authors, the huge cache of bones may have been collected over a period of time before being imported to ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

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