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.

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.

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

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

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

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

Researchers Discover Paleolithic Cave Art Dated 66,000 Years Ago, Reveal Neanderthals to Be the ‘First Artists' Painting from three cave sites, a red linear motif in Cave of La Pasiega, a hand stencil ...

Even before the use of AI, it was widely accepted within archaeology that visualisations of the past are highly fraught and ...