A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion.

In 2003, archaeologists discovered fossils of Homo floresiensis on the island of Flores, some 2,300 kilometers (1,429 miles) away. The three-foot hominid was thought by experts to have died out 20,000 ...

The first Homo sapien outside Africa was discovered in a Greek cave. Public Domain/University of Tübingen A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of ...

Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved cave walls about 250,000 years ago, according to new research.

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation. The first published study on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and ...

But they did. We know this because many of us have some Neanderthal DNA. We find out what we gained when Homo sapiens mated with Homo neanderthalensis many thousands of years ago. There is a ...

floresiensis, H. luzonensis, H. longi, and H. juluensis in Asia and Nesher Ramla Homo in the Levant. Given what we know from historical events that chronicle human population exchanges through ...

Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five of their dead at Timshenet cave, along with grave goods consisting of animal remains and chunks of red ochre. At the same ...