A newly identified Paleolithic culture in northern China reveals unique stone tools and early ochre processing dating back ...
A 476,000-year-old wooden structure uncovered in Zambia predates Homo sapiens by centuries, showcasing ancient construction ...
That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...
“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a ...
About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more ...
Modern humans were not always the dominant species on Earth. For tens of thousands of years, Homo sapiens shared the planet ...
A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...