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 ...

One of the oldest man’s grim death at the jaws of an extinct mega-beast may be one of the most violent and grim in history. The man dubbed OH7, was a Homo habilis, one of the oldest human species ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony represent the oldest known footprints in Germany. The 300,000-year-old site ...

A mysterious skull, discovered in a Greek cave decades ago, has been identified as belonging to Homo heidelbergensis, an extinct human ancestor. Recent dating techniques place the skull at ...

he Petralona skull, whose origins have baffled scientists for long. A mysterious 300,000-year-old skull discovered over 60 years ago may have been finally identified. Originally found attached to a ...

Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil belonged to an ancient human group that lived alongside Neanderthals. When ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. In a study published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, an ...

The famous Schöningen spears, discovered in Germany in 1994, are considered the oldest weapons made by hominins that have been preserved in their entirety. For a long time, the original dating that ...