TEHRAN - The sixth season of archaeological excavations at Qal-e Kord cave in the Avaj county of Iran’s Qazvin province has ...

In the 1920 ancient hand axes were discovered at this Acheulean site located at Fordwich near Canterbury in Kent England, and these date back to between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago. But in the new ...

Who was the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and us modern humans? The last common ancestor of both the Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis is now seen as Homo heidelbergensis, but what do ...

The latest findings point to a systematic process of human meat consumption by Homo antecessor who may have been ancestors of Homo heidelbergensis, who in turn gave rise to the Neanderthals ...

The decapitated remains of an infant discovered at the Gran Dolina archaeological site in Burgos, Spain, may be the earliest evidence of cannibalism in Europe. The child’s vertebra, dated to 850,000 ...

Learn more about how to make sense of Asia’s confusing hominin fossil record of Homo juluensis, and why scientists proposed a new species.

However, others claim Homo antecessor is actually the same species as Homo heidelbergensis, who lived in Europe between 600,000 and 250,000 years ago in the Pleistocene era.

According to new research, Neanderthal DNA genes could be the reason that some people are more prone to a type of headache-causing brain defect.

Episode 1 - The First of Us The first episode tells the extraordinary story of how our species, Homo sapiens, first emerged and how the discoveries of recent years are revolutionising our ...

Farmers Dug Up a Skull Unlike Any Human Ancestor Ryan Somma from Occoquan, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ...

Given such an early age for the spears and other artifacts, Neandertal ancestors or an ancient species called Homo heidelbergensis might have hunted horses at Schöningen.