Could an archaic species of human have survived up to 11,500 years ago? Recent findings from the Red Deer Cave near Mengzi City in Yunnan Province, China, raise intriguing questions about these humans ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

As far as art goes, it's not going to win any awards. But this large pebble might be the earliest known representation of a face, experts say.

New research has revealed that Homo erectus in Java persisted far longer than previously believed, possibly overlapping with ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

Some believed that waves of technologically superior hunter-gatherers had spelled the doom of their heavy-foreheaded cousins, ...

an archaic Homo sapiens, or a Denisovan. The bone, known scientifically as Penghu 1, was netted by a fisherman from the floor of the Penghu Channel, about 15.5 miles off the west coast of Taiwan.

Whether Homo sapiens will prove clever enough to entirely ... the location of a hominin skull with a mix of modern and archaic traits. It was found near Kabwe, Zambia.

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.