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.

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

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

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, ...

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 ...

According to groundbreaking findings from England, Neanderthals were sparking their own fires 400,000 years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than many anthropologists previously believed.

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

Researchers say they found 400,000-year-old evidence of a hearth and tools at what used to be pond site where Neanderthals ...

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

After surviving for nearly 400,000 years across Eurasia, Neanderthals vanished some 40,000 years ago, just as Homo sapiens began to spread across the continent. A recent study now suggests that their ...

Fragmented, butchered, and scattered, the remains of Neanderthals found at Northern European sites have long hinted at cannibalism, but until now, no one knew who these individuals were or why they ...