People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Archaeologists in Sharjah have unearthed 80,000-year-old stone tools, revealing a continuous human presence in Arabia ...

A little over 100,000 years ago, groups of prehistoric humans in the Levant suddenly began burying their dead, marking one of the most significant cognitive and behavioral leaps in the history of our ...

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

Europe’s earliest known boomerang, carved from mammoth tusk and over 40,000 years old, reveals advanced skills of early Homo ...

The evidence links human presence to Marine Isotope Stage 5a, a period of dramatic environmental shifts when monsoons from ...

The ancient boomerang wasn't found alone; it lay alongside a human phalanx—a small bone from either a finger or a toe.

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

According to a new study published Wednesday in Nature, ancient Homo sapiens developed the flexibility to survive by finding food and other resources in a wide variety of difficult habitats before ...