Scientists examining traces left behind by early humans continue to find evidence that refuses to stay neatly in place. New ...
A crushed ancient skull may hold clues to the origins of ancient humans. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...
Fire sits at the center of how people think about being human, yet its beginnings stay oddly vague. Most readers carry a hazy ...
Study finds plant poison was used on ancient arrows, pointing to sophisticated hunting methods used 60,000 years ago ...
He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...
Scientists recently discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans — and it’s far older than scholars previously believed. The study, which was published in the ...
Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...