early humans

Roughly 1.4 million years ago, our distant human ancestors in the Middle East created stone spheroids with a unique purpose, according to a recent study. This discovery reveals that early humans, such as Homo erectus, had a desire to...

Ice Age human footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico are rewriting the history of humans in America. Scientists recently announced that the footprints are 23,000 years old, which means they are from the last Ice Age. The...

Neanderthals and early humans are now believed to have inhabited Naxos 200,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought.

  New research using advanced 3D muscle modeling has shed light on our ancient ancestor "Lucy," who lived 3.2 million years ago. The findings indicate that Lucy, belonging to the extinct species Australopithecus afarensis, had the ability to stand and walk...

Whether or not war is part of human nature has been debated throughout history. Of course, there is ample evidence of killings in archaeology, but individual homicide is not actual, full-blown war, in which organized peoples take up arms...

Neanderthals and humans cohabitated in Europe for over two thousand years according to a new study. They may have even bred together and exchanged ideas. This is the finding of Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who won the Nobel Prize last...

A recreation of a Neanderthal man's face is turning heads all over the world not only for its strong resemblance to our own physiognomy today but also because of the good humor it exudes as much as 70,000 years...

The ten most fascinating things discovered about our human ancestors were not difficult to decide this past year, which was a banner year in the field of research into human history. From North America through Europe and Asia, scientists who...

A team of researchers published papers last week on their 2017 discovery of a skull of a child belonging to the hominid species Homo naledi. The skull, which is 250,000 years old, was retrieved from the depths of a...