Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Along the southwestern coast of Portugal, fossilized footprints preserved in ancient dunes provide a rare glimpse into ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

A new archaeological find pushes back the timeline on when humans mastered the ability to make fires, a transformative ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

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

The Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary human cousins and for hundreds of thousands of years were much more successful at colonizing Europe than we were. Recent archaeological evidence shows ...

Chimp and Neanderthal faces grow beyond adolescence, which explains their more rugged features. Credit: AI-generated image by ChatGPT 4o. Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but ...