An international team of scientists has found out that two types of ancient people originated in Africa, and not one, as previously thought. To clarify this issue, they analyzed the area of dental ...

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

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.

A 3D reconstruction of an ancient Homo erectus skull, known as DAN5, has unveiled primitive features that challenge existing theories about early human evolution.

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

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

The Dutch Ministry of Culture also announced on Wednesday about returning approximately 28,000 other fossils to Indonesia.

The Netherlands has returned four pieces from a major archaeological collection to Indonesia, including the skullcap which ...

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 ...