An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

In a nutshell A mammoth ivory boomerang discovered in a Polish cave is likely between 42,290 and 39,280 years old, making it ...

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

Modern humans arrived in the westernmost part of Europe 41,000 -- 38,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than previously known, according to Jonathan Haws, Ph.D., professor and chair of the ...

Scientists have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on the DNA of early ...

Modern humans co-existed with Neanderthals in Europe for up to 3,000 years, according to research. Analysis of dozens of artifacts shows they overlapped in France and northern Spain for much ...

Two studies published Wednesday in the journal "Nature" provide much-needed insight into how ancient humans interacted nearly 45,000 to 35,000 years ago.

A broken molar and some sophisticated stone pointed tools suggest that Europe’s first known humans may have been living on the continent 54,000 years ago. The findings are detailed in a study ...

Modern humans generate more brain neurons than Neanderthals Date: September 8, 2022 Source: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) ...

Analysis of the oldest-known genomes from early modern humans who lived in Europe indicates that the mixing occurred more recently than previous estimates, according to a paper published in Nature ...