Scientists have analyzed amino acids preserved in snail shells to determine a new age for the world's oldest complete wooden ...

A 300,000-year-old skull found in China may belong to a completely unknown human species—rewriting everything we thought we ...

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

In the Altai Mountains, in southern Siberia, lies the famous Denisova Cave, the only place in the world where the presence of ...

The Lapedo Child was a four-year-old who was discovered in Portugal in 1998 who showed genetic traits from both Neanderthals ...

The Neanderthal occupants of a cave in central Spain had a pretty unusual tradition that seems to have been passed down ...

Everyone loves director Patrick Osborne's hilarious "Three Robots" shorts from Volume 1 and Volume 3, so now he's turned his ...

J. M. Hutson et al., Revised age for Schöningen hunting spears indicates intensification of Neanderthal cooperative behavior ...

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during what is known as the African Humid Period ... and Northen Africa at the time. The Taforalt people also have half the Neanderthal genes of non-Africans ...

for the first time, scientists have deciphered the genomes of two individuals who lived during the so-called “green Sahara” or African Humid Period. This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating ... that part of the world in that period of time,” Ben Marwick, co-author and ...

“This is a big upset to the way we think about that part of the world in that period of time,” said Ben Marwick ... but could we find a Neanderthal? Or, more likely, could we find a Denisovan ...