The peer-reviewed paper has been published in the journal eLife. Paleoanthropologists have once again sparked a debate after suggesting that a long-extinct human relative may have buried its dead more ...

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell and ...

Homo Naledi, an extinct species of small-bodied hominins, may have intentionally buried their dead over 240,000 years ago.

The Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom (2686–2125 B.C.) produced many lasting artefacts—but little DNA has survived. Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built ...

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child belonged to neither Homo sapiens, who had arrived in the region from Africa, ...

Homo sapiens might have been the dominant species on the planet for millennia, but it wasn't always that way. When the first Homo sapiens emerged around 300,000 years ago, our ancestors were just one ...

There is one archaeological site that has much in common with Rising Star: Sima de los Huesos (the “pit of bones”) in northern Spain. There, researchers have uncovered the remains of 29 hominins, ...

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including those of a previously unknown Homo erectus population. A team of scientists ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of over a dozen humans in Peru dated to around 400BC, buried face down with their ...