Studying primate characteristics requires access to their skeletons, which can be costly and cause wear and tear to the ...

The new evidence reignites a debate about this type of practice among ancient Europeans. It's a lot to get your teeth into.

When the cave was studied three decades ago, archaeologists noticed the human remains had cut marks on the bones made by tools, according to a study published Feb. 6 in the peer-r ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

A team of archaeologists, paleontologists, and historians from several institutions in Spain, Germany, and Poland, has found ...

Learn how with painstaking effort, archaeological artists bring back faces from the past.

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...