A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...
That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...
The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...
With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...
In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...
Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...
The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...
New analysis of child remains unearthed in an Italian cave reveal that they belong to the earliest-known Homo sapiens female infant burial in Europe—a discovery that helps resolve questions about the ...
In 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek walked out of Ethiopia’s Rift Valley, the beginning of a seven-year journey on foot to follow the trails of the first Homo Sapiens. Two ...
Complex geodynamic forces along the Eurasian and African faults are slowly tumbling the Iberian Peninsula toward the ...