A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human from all other human lineages and one that it passed on to modern humans via ...

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed 10 "extremely rare" prehistoric stone hand axes that were crafted to deliberately include geological features, including fossils and geodes, a new study finds.

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In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

New evidence reveals Homo erectus mastered survival in Tanzania’s ancient deserts, proving they were adaptable generalists long before modern humans emerged. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Image Credit: t.m ...

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs.

The find may require rethinking the so-called "Bamboo Hypothesis." I love these articles about pre-humans. The timescales really crack my brain. 10,000 years ago, the particulars of human existence ...

Ancient human relatives moved diverse stones over substantial distances, researchers report, revealing a surprisingly high degree of forward planning 600,000 years earlier than experts previously ...

Tim Chaucer, a local historian who runs a museum called the Milford Marine Institute, has a historian’s love of old things. So, when he got a call about five years ago from a Milford man who was ...