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 ...

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, ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to ...

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

Research shows Ice Age humans used structured signs 40,000 years ago as a communication system, revealing deep prehistoric ...