Researchers believe the location served as a hunter-gatherer camp frequented by homo heidelbergensis, an early human ancestor ...
Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...
Stone tools discovered decades ago in a Polish cave have been reexamined using modern methods, revealing an age far older ...
At the Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh in Ukraine, archaeologists identified ivory fragments shaped into tools nearly 400,000 ...
When scientists attempt to draw the evolutionary family tree of the human race, they would like to be able to use straight lines to show the relationships between hominin groups: one species leads to ...
In northern Spain about 430,000 years ago, the bodies of at least 28 early humans—evolutionary precursors of Neanderthals, Homo heidelbergensis—found their way to the bottom of a 43-foot-deep shaft in ...