Researchers claim to have uncovered the "oldest face in Western Europe" after excavating fragments of a skull at the Sima del ...

Academics have said they have found "the earliest human face of western Europe", after fragments of a skull were found at the Spanish archaeological cave site of Sima del Elefante. The skull of the ...

A rare Denisovan jawbone found off Taiwan confirms these ancient human relatives once lived across much of Asia.

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

Denisovans are extinct human relatives who lived at the same time as Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. But unlike Neanderthals, ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

I am looking forward to seeing more new finds and more certain human fossil or ancient DNA or paleoproteomic (ancient protein ...

This disputes the idea that the Middle Paleolithic was stagnant in the region and deepens the understanding of Homo sapiens, Denisovans, and possibly other hominins. The most distinctive part of the ...

Archaeologists have documented it by tracking the spread of human DNA from remains and tools from Africa. Dr. Harvati said that Apidima 1 points to an early expansion of Homo sapiens into Europe from ...

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