When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones — which is crucial for ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones - which is crucial for ...

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its ...

IN Huxley's day the Neanderthal calvaria was the only hominid not clearly included in the Homo sapiens group available for study; but since his time other skulls have been found, which make it evident ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after declining rainfall levels forced them to compete with modern humans, among ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most significant discoveries ...

South Africa’s initial claim to be humanity’s home goes back almost a hundred years. In 1924, anatomist Raymond Dart found a skull of a juvenile primate among a box of fossil-bearing rocks sent to him ...

No matter how much we dig, it seems there's always something new to discover. Quite literally... A 6th-century Byzantine bucket, an ancient Egyptian royal tomb and a sanctuary dedicated to the ...

From gorgeous artworks to grimacing corpses, archaeologists are still uncovering the truth about life—and death—in the doomed city Franz Lidz; Photographs by Chiara Goia In a 21st-century tribute to ...