Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

The Day Science Fell for One of the Most Absurd Hoaxes Ever On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered ...

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

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

In Eastern Europe, archaeologists uncovered circular accumulations of mammoth bones dating back 44,000 years. Found at the ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

Proof that Neandertals hadn’t adapted to cold was right under their noses. “What we found is that, yes, Neandertals had bigger noses, but that the inner structure of their noses was not so different ...

The Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary human cousins and for hundreds of thousands of years were much more successful at colonizing Europe than we were. Recent archaeological evidence shows ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals shared a common ancestor, lived side by side in parts of Eurasia, and even had children ...