Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

For more than 50 years, since the discovery of the skull of Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, ...

Published in the Journal of Human Evolution, the research reexamines scavenging through the lens of optimal foraging theory, ...

Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...

Stretching from western Anatolia to southeastern Europe, this previously unknown land bridge provides a whole new migration ...

Archaeologists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have announced their discovery of stone fragments that closely resemble ancient stone tools made by prehistoric humans. What ...

The artifacts were found after a dig by hand on a steep slope in semi-desert. They are well-preserved because they were apparently discarded by early members of our genus by the side of a spring or ...

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An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...