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

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 ...

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

The War Between the Land and the Sea has hit the internet, and here’s a recap of what happened in the premiere. Given that it’s a part of the iconic show, Doctor Who, and falls under the Whoniverse, ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) Almost 2 million years ...