When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

A fresh study suggests that some of humanity’s earliest “geometric thinking” wasn’t scratched onto cave walls, but etched into ostrich eggshells used by Ice Age people in southern Africa. By measuring ...

New analysis of Neanderthal bones from Belgium indicates targeted cannibalism of outsiders that may signal territorial conflict before their regional disappearance.

Archaeologists report that 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal humanity’s earliest known use of geometry.

Morocco: Ancient Fossils Shed Light On A Key Period In Human Evolution. Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered ...

A new radiocarbon reassessment has established that the so-called Lapedo child from central Portugal was buried approximately ...

New analysis of 40,000-year-old carvings discovered in Germany show repeated patterns and structure, hinting that early ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, ...

“The results demonstrate that Homo sapiens during the late [Middle Stone Age] mastered precise, pre-planned patterns anchored in specific geometric affordances: orthogonality [meaning the use of right ...

New research suggests these markings, while not a written language, display properties akin to an early script that emerged ...