The zigzag lines visible in the photo above probably were carved at least 430,000 years ago by a Homo erectus, an extinct hominid with a brain only slightly smaller than those of modern humans ...

World's Oldest Art Identified in Half-Million-Year-Old Zigzag. Our Homo erectus ancestors may have been smarter and more creative than we thought.

Homo erectus was in the news over 2018 thanks to new discoveries in the Philippines and China, which have transformed our understanding of this not too distant family member.. So who was Homo ...

We used to trace the origins of art to Stone Age Europe. Now we have evidence of artistic sensibility in earlier hominins, from Neanderthals to Homo erectus and beyond ...

A recent discovery stemming from a massive construction project reveals evidence of a previously unknown group of Homo erectus that lived off the coast of Java, Indonesia, 140,000 years ago.

Homo erectus was a piece of anthropological trivia I inserted in the middle of a conversation with old friends who were pathetically talking about E.D. (erectile dysfunction) and other sexual ...

The researchers believe Homo erectus became isolated on the island around 1 million years ago and underwent a dramatic reduction in body size during a period of around 300,000 years.