An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...

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Archaeologists uncover 850,000-year-old evidence of cannibalism in Spain’s Gran Dolina cave, including the butchered remains ...

A series of recent investigations suggests that the first human communities passed on their particular culinary traditions ...

New research highlights the prevalence of maggots as an easily obtained, nutrient-rich supplement of ancient hominin diets.

The debate around the evolution of modern humans has sparked up new arguments after new information has come to light about Homo sapiens fossils found in East Africa. When looking at the origins ...

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 ...

It’s time to change the current known historic timeline when it comes to the arrival of us modern humans, or Homo sapiens, in Europe. The timeline needs to be altered and pushed back 10,000 ...

Humans used to have straighter teeth—what changed? New research explores how diet, evolution, and facial anatomy may have shaped our modern smiles.

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In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel. It forms part of the oldest intentional human burials ever ...

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