Were early humans hunters — or hunted?For decades, researchers believed that Homo habilis — the earliest known species in our genus — marked the ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

Recent discoveries of fossils have provided evidence suggesting intelligent tool use among pre-human species. This ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research provides the first scientific evidence that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had ...

An international research team has identified the earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens traits. The skeleton, belonging to a five-year-old child found 90 years ago in Israel’s ...

Discovered approximately 90 years ago, the fossil was reanalyzed using advanced micro-CT scanning and 3D modeling. A groundbreaking international study has uncovered the oldest physical evidence of ...

These files consist of 3D scans of historical objects in the collections of the Smithsonian and may be downloaded by you only for non-commercial, educational, and ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

Research team: “This discovery reveals the world’s earliest known human fossil showing morphological traits of both of these human groups, which until recently were considered two separate human ...