Homo Naledi, an extinct species of small-bodied hominins, may have intentionally buried their dead over 240,000 years ago.

Learn more about the differences between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and how those differences may have helped our ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans ...

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Origins” Premieres Wednesday, September 17 at 9:00 pm Around 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens emerged in Africa – one of at ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared many similarities. But Neanderthals disappeared, while Homo sapiens evolved into modern ...

At Israel’s Evron Quarry, AI analysis of flint tools revealed they had been heated to 400°C around 1 million years ago.

Five University of Bristol early-career researchers have been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting ...

Knowledge about the first settlements of Homo sapiens in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula at the beginning of the Upper ...

In a new study published in the journal l'Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known example of human ...

Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of ...