Molecular sleuthing has tied the more‑than‑146,000‑year‑old Harbin cranium, known as "Dragon Man," to this hidden branch of humanity.

The debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East Africa. The oldest remains currently known were discovered at Djebel Irhoud ...

Fossils once thought to represent the oldest dated Homo sapiens remains are now categorized as a subspecies of Homo sapiens: Idaltu. This raises the question: Are they a new subspecies or merely ...

Modern Homo sapiens migrated into the high arctic of Siberia around 40,000 years ago, during the middle of the Ice Age – something Neanderthals never did. That’s strong evidence that we mastered ...

Archaeologists working in Southeast Asia recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor, according to new studies. The bones were part of a cache of ...

3.3 million years ago: Hominids make crude stone tools. Harmand/MPK/WTAP; 3 million to 2.6 million years ago: Butchered animal bones appear in the archaeological record.

They were groups of archaic Neanderthal-like Homo, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. Exposed section of archaeological sediments at Tinshemet cave, a Middle Paleolithic site in central Israel. (Yossi ...

JERUSALEM — In a limestone cave in Israel, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of what might be the oldest case of cultural sharing between different human species. The discovery reveals that ...

The oldest Homo sapiens skulls-160, 000 year-old fossil bones-were polished after death by continuous handling. The earliest examples of ritual burials are from 2 sites in northern Israel dated 90 ...

I used a combination of AI tools, including Freepik and ChatGPT, to imagine humanity's future if it were to spread throughout the solar system and beyond.

Since the oldest cave paintings, figures, decorated bone tools and jewellery known in Europe to date date from the time of the so-called "Late Palaeolithic Revolution" some 40,000 years ago and Homo ...