The team’s method estimated that the life expectancy for Neanderthals was 37.8 years, and the same for another extinct member ...

A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

Long before highways and high-rises, Earth was home to some seriously massive, strange, and downright wild animals. These ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

The residents of the Moroccan site weren’t quite the Homo sapiens of today; their skulls were less rounded and more elongated than ours, perhaps signaling differences between our brains and theirs.

Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more ...

Between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago, Neanderthals embarked on a second wave of major migrations from Eastern Europe to ...

While surveying a Neanderthal rock shelter inside a cave in San Lázaro, Spain, archaeologists noticed an unusual stone among ...

The deposits of human vertebrae fauna, and paleo-environmental evolution, shed light on the earliest stages of the origins and development of Homo sapiens of Africa. The discoveries of ancient stone ...