Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Ochre remains, dating back 18,000 years ago, were unearthed at the Fodongdi site in Lincang, Southwest China's Yunnan ...

Researchers believe the location served as a hunter-gatherer camp frequented by homo heidelbergensis, an early human ancestor ...

Sundaland was a vast Southeast Asian landmass that existed for most of the last 2 million years, exposed during glacial periods when sea levels were over 120 meters lower than today. This connected ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

The dry deserts of north-eastern Saudi Arabia were once wet enough to host vibrant communities of animals – and researchers have just found evidence that ancient hominins lived there too. “This paper ...

Deep in the heart of northern Zambia, an astonishing archaeological find is reshaping our understanding of early human history. Hidden beneath the powerful ...

The Day Science Fell for One of the Most Absurd Hoaxes Ever On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered ...

A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...