Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

There are no greater threats to the future survival of humanity than the climate emergency and militarism. From an evolutionary perspective, both are attempts at survival that have gone badly awry.

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held assumption about stone tool use.

© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed in Morocco could help us solve this enigma. A discovery in Morocco The 21 ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

Osbjorn Pearson In 2012, fossils from a rare Homo habilis skeleton were uncovered along the shores of Lake Turkana in ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

Regular contact with fire could play a key role in the formation of the human genome, affecting the mechanisms of healing and immune response. This is the conclusion reached by scientists at Imperial ...