The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or ...

Thanks to a combination of genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence, scientists have uncovered that the Persian Plateau served as a vital hub for Homo sapiens during the early stages of ...

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

In “Darkenbloom,” by the Austrian novelist Eva Menasse, the citizens of a European border town have secrets they’d prefer to ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

A 210,000-year-old skull from Greece’s Apidima Cave reveals the earliest known Homo sapiens outside Africa, pushing back the ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved ...