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

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

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

A team of scientists led by the British Museum have unearthed the earliest known evidence of fire making, dating back over 400,000 years, in a field in Suffolk.

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its ...

"Elemental Life" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia shows the artist's unique use of sculpture and glazes to explore history, ecology and geology ...

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated those early pictures really were. Far from crude doodles, these works show ...

Lead is synonymous with industrial pollution and modern toxicity. Yet this heavy metal has haunted humanity for nearly two million years. According to a new study, this ancient exposure may have ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient. When reconstructed, the more ...

A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...