The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

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

The discovery and the use of fire changed the nature of the digestion of food, creating additional calories. Serotonin, a ...

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

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean lines they once drew through our family tree. These remains, from a species ...

Instinctively, we stand exactly where we started, in a land before time . When the Mammoths Are on the Move: Homo Erectus may ...

The Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia, Marc Gerritsen, handed over the objects to Indonesia’s Minister of Culture, Fadli Zon, in the presence of Marcel Beukeboom, the General Director of Naturalis ...

For much of prehistory, Southeast Asia was not a scattering of islands separated by shallow seas. It was a single, immense ...

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 ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...