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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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