Researchers theorize that an adult male dipped his finger in red ocher and intentionally used the pigment to complete the ...

Colombia sits on the land through which Homo sapiens first spread from Central America to South America more than 14,500 ...

Noting how the finger-painted red dot combines with a series of natural depressions in the pebble to form an image, the ...

In 1958, in a narrow trench of an eroded limestone cave near Maba Village in Shaoguan City, China, local farmers were digging ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

Scientists found the world’s oldest fingerprint—and it’s turning human history upside down.

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in ...

His genome diverged from those of other late Neanderthals around 105,000 years ago. That’s a staggering timespan. Thorin’s ...

Current planetary crises, from climate change to famine, epidemic disease, and overpopulation, starkly inform us that we are not managing our evolution well. A rogue state like North Korea holds up a ...

It is now recognised that at least two main natural corridors for crossing the Pyrenees were frequented by prehistoric human groups: the “Basque Crossroads” in the west and the Cerdanya valley in the ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology ...

The ongoing intrigue should come as no surprise because, for a long time, Neanderthals were the model for the missing link between our own species, Homo sapiens, and the first apelike pre-human ...