Many paleoanthropologists view Homo ergaster, meaning "working man," as a turning point in our evolutionary story. That's ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...

Stretching from western Anatolia to southeastern Europe, this previously unknown land bridge may have been a migration route ...

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

An analysis of stone tools found in Italy and Lebanon indicates that around 42,000 years ago, modern humans in Europe and the ...

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...