Sketches on a stone unearthed in Marbella, Spain, are believed to be 200,000 years old, providing insight into settlers ...

The study, published in Nature Genetics, completely rewrites the story of humans. Scientists have long believed that Homo ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

ANCIENT rock carvings etched over 200,000 years ago could be the oldest ever uncovered, archaeologists believe. The exciting discovery inside a Spanish cave could rewrite human history and shed ...

Researchers say this new discovery in Spain could play a major role in understanding the history of humans in Europe ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

The object was found at Coto Correa in Las Chapas, a site that has been known since the 1950s, when archaeologists first ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...