In recent years, there have been numerous studies that compare anatomically modern humans – our direct ancestors – to other ...

A recently uncovered archaeological site has yielded a set of "surprising" insights into the lives of Neanderthals during a poorly known period of their history. The latest findings, published in the ...

Across Ice Age Europe, human movement followed narrow corridors shaped by climate, terrain, and time. Along those corridors, two human groups occupied overlapping centuries without clear records of ...

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other large apes around 21 million years ago, and that Neanderthals likely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cranium of a child discovered at the Skhul Cave site looked like that of a Homo sapiens skull. - Tel Aviv University In a ...

The study's findings indicate that these giant elephants were not stationary creatures. Strontium isotope analyses, which act as a "travel diary" preserved in tooth enamel, showed that some ...

Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archaeological finds ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...