Learn more about the ancient footprints found in Greece, which could upend theories on hominin emigration from Africa.

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

These human ancestors would have had plenty to take advantage of near these ancient rivers. Trees bore fruit all year, and ...

A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and ...

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did – and learn to recognize the signs of a deliberately made tool.

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils ...

"Traces of Denisovan DNA are found in present-day Asian, Australian and Melanesian populations, suggesting that these ancient hominins may have once been widespread," says Jean-Jacques Hublin, ...

The site is also where archaeologists have previously unearthed artifacts related to some of the first stone tools crafted by early hominins, or human ancestors who walked upright. The new ...

Archaeologists have dug up a collection of mass-produced bone tools, the earliest ever discovered, suggesting that hominins systematically made tools out of bone around 1 million years earlier ...

Hominins living on an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago were even smaller than Homo floresiensis, the so-called hobbits that lived on the same island much more recently. Newly analysed fossils ...