In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants ...

Six teeth from Homo erectus individuals who lived roughly 400,000 years ago in China have yielded enamel proteins carrying an ...

A new method that detects whether bones have been burned reveals Homo erectus brought fires into caves far earlier than ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise them as being very different from you. You'd see a certain "human-ness" in the stance, and his or her size and shape might be ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have uncovered the skulls of two individuals belonging to ...

In the early 1930s, Dutch anthropologists found a giant bed of bones hidden above the banks of the Solo River on the Indonesian island of Java. Buried in the river mud in an area called Ngandong were ...

The Gona site in Afar, Ethiopia is a hotbed of anthropological discovery. It is also, quite literally, hot. But the inhospitable climate, paleoanthropologist Sileshi Semaw tells Inverse, is likely why ...

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 ...

If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise them as being very different from you. You’d see a certain “human-ness” in the stance, and his or her size and shape might be ...