That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

New fossil finds in Java shed light on the last known population of Homo erectus, one of humanity’s most resilient ancestors. These remains mark the species’ final stand before extinction—and offer ...

Some paleoanthropologists believe that people have been eating cooked food, and therefore making fires, for millions of years. The evidence for this, so far, has been evolutionary changes in hominin ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Natalia Garcia-Lee works in many media, including jewelry, but in her solo exhibition in the generously proportioned gallery at Miami-Dade College, the artist, born in Madrid and who lives part of the ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

During the Japanese occupation of China in 1933, a man working on a bridge in the city of Harbin in the northeastern part of the country discovered a skull and immediately hid it from his Japanese ...

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