When our ancient ancestors made the journey out of Africa and took their first steps in Eurasia, they came face-to-face with Neanderthals for the first time – and boy, did they hit it off. In fact, ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

The latest discoveries in Central China's Henan province are filling critical gaps in understanding East Asia's role in human ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Last August, archaeologists discovered a number of artefacts in Indonesia that could transform theories of early human ...

The government and stakeholders must act now to protect archeological sites on Sulawesi from a growing list of threats, from climate change to mining.

The findings, based on the analysis of human fossils in a Moroccan cave dating back nearly 800,000 years possibly shift the focus from Europe back to the African continent. The fossils, mainly ...