A team of researchers from Griffith University have unearthed a complex technological device in central China that has altered our understanding of our history.
The deliberate accumulation of animal crania is pretty rare in the archaeological record. A team led by archaeologist Lucía ...
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What if humans mated with Neanderthals again?
About 50,000 years ago, we shared this planet with different hominids called the Neanderthals. Their species wasn't human, but they weren't far from it either. No longer walking among us, these early ...
Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have led a study, recently published in the Journal of Human Evolution, on the diet of individuals at the Sima de ...
Scans of fossil leg bones indicate bipedalism two million years earlier than other hominids Sarah Knapton is the Science Editor of The Telegraph and has covered all areas of science since 2013. She ...
The invention of the wheel aside, the lighting of the first fire is probably the best-known cartoonists’ trope about early humans. With good reason. Controlling fire is one of humanity’s most ...
Scientists discover how real-life ‘hobbits’ went extinct — and why modern humans are at fault: study
They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after declining rainfall levels forced them to compete with modern humans, among ...
Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...
UC San Diego researchers have found high levels of lead in the teeth of both Neanderthals (left) and modern humans (right). However, a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stone tools are pictured at the site where archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found artefacts, which scientists say may ...
SOPPENG, Indonesia (Reuters) -Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and ...
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