However, a pair of fossilized skull fragments recently found off the Javanese coast are helping experts recontextualize the ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago.

In humanity’s longest prehistoric migration, groups of daring people walked over 20,000 kilometres (12,427 miles) from North ...

The question of where we come from is one that has fascinated humans for centuries,” states Dr. Trevor Cousins of the ...

Researchers uncover new evidence of how ancient human relatives in South Africa used their hands, revealing varying levels of ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South ...

Both ancient human species showed signs of simultaneously using their hands to move around – such as by climbing trees – as ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

An 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This ...

Everyone’s seen Rudolph Zallinger’s “The March of Progress” illustration showcasing the evolution of humans: from early ...

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did — and learn to ...

The beginning of Homo sapiens belief in gods did not start with a sense of awe, as primitive human beings observed the sun and moon with a sense of wonder. That is too philosophical. More likely it ...