A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has nothing to do with communication ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

A little over 100,000 years ago, groups of prehistoric humans in the Levant suddenly began burying their dead, marking one of ...

New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young ...

The Peking Man Museum, built in 1953, is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was constructed around a collection of ancient limestone caves where the first remains of Homo erectus ...

Deep in a South African cave, a revolutionary discovery is challenging everything we thought we knew about human evolution. In 2013, a trove of bones unearthed in the Rising Star Cave system unveiled ...

Paleoanthropologists have long debated whether the bone came from a Homo erectus, an archaic Homo sapiens, or a Denisovan. The bone, known scientifically as Penghu 1, ...

Even though the exact anatomical traits of the hominins at these sites vary—from modern Homo sapiens to archaic Neanderthal-like forms—their tools and practices speak a common cultural language.