Researchers found lead bands in 73 percent of 51 fossilized teeth spanning two million years of hominin history.

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

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

Along the Aegean coastline in Turkiye (formerly Turkey), an all-female archeologist team recently discovered more than 130 ...

Within the limestone chambers of Tinshemet Cave, archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric social network that’s got experts rethinking what they know about our ancient relatives. The cave, nestled ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

A study of a million-year-old skull from China has potentially rewritten the early chapter of human evolution.

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

An analysis of stone tools found in Italy and Lebanon indicates that around 42,000 years ago, modern humans in Europe and the ...