Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

Evidence from caves in France and Spain shows Neanderthals made symbolic art long before Homo sapiens, reshaping ideas about ...

Found in a Greek cave in 1959, the Petralona skull has puzzled scientists for decades. Dated to nearly 700,000 years ago, it displays features of both Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens. Its age and ...

We propose in a recently published review paper that the coast of southern Africa was likely where Homo sapiens began the ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

A journey across Sicily reveals the essence of an island shaped by outsiders, where successive waves of immigration over the ...

A journey across Sicily reveals the essence of an island shaped by outsiders, where successive waves of immigration over the ...

In our review, we accepted that modern humans arose in Africa during the Middle Stone Age about 200,000 years ago and then replaced populations of hominins outside the continent between 60,000 and 40, ...

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Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for nearly 300,000 years despite the chaos of shifting climates. Picture early ...

New evidence is emerging in Kenya of early humans crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years during the Pliocene, despite ...