The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...
A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.
That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...
The Netherlands has returned four pieces from a major archaeological collection to Indonesia, including the skullcap which ...