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.

Ancient homo sapiens may have benefitted from mineral-based sun protection, living in caves and even tailored clothing.

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

Artefacts unearthed in Yunnan province display key features of toolmaking technology associated with Neanderthals much ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

Neanderthals could have migrated east and reached ... helping to reverse that narrative and demonstrate that the humans living in these regions were every bit as behaviorally dynamic and complex ...

This period is also associated with the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa and the evolution of archaic humans like Neanderthals and Denisovans. Researchers discovered a distinctive Quina stone ...