The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

The print was discovered in red ochre pigment on a granite stone at the Abrigo de San Lázaro site near Segovia ...

New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young ...

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...

Scientists sequenced the genomes of 2,762 individuals across India, revealing the country’s unique ancestral makeup and a ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

When the archaeologists dated the boomerang in Poland, it was dated to 30,000 years ago. In the same area, a human thumb bone ...

THE face of humans’ most mysterious ancestor has finally been uncovered after 217,000 years. The discovery proves that the ...