The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is ...

THE mystery of a robust ancient jawbone with large teeth and what species it belongs to has baffled scientists since it was dredged up in the 2000s. But in a new study, scientists say the bone may ...

A Neanderthal artefact found in a cave in the Caucasus Mountains is the oldest bone spear tip ever found in Europe, a new ...

We don't have it before,” says Zaidner. “And it occurs across all the sites, regardless of whether [the makers had] more ...

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.

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.