Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached the ...

Small settlements and the scourge of slavery left gaps in Africa’s archaeological record. Yet sites and artifacts are ...

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...

New research on ancient teeth from China suggests humans and Homo erectus interbreeding shaped early Asian populations.

New stone tool discovery on Sulawesi shows early humans reached the island over 1 million years ago, long before modern ...

Seven newly discovered stone tools, dating to between 1.04 and 1.48 million years ago, were found on the Indonesian island of ...

Excavated implements suggest a Homo species arrived on Sulawesi over 1 million years ago, before a nearby island hosted hobbit ancestors.

The earliest evidence of human cannibalism dates back to 1.45 million years where a butchered Homo erectus bone was found in northern Kenya and it is likely the practice existed until relatively ...

Leader and Humans Homo naledi's burial practices could change what it means to be human If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are ...

A new digital reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman’s ribcage shows a number of “ambiguous” features that might have assisted him ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the earliest known Homo sapiens.