A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

(CNN) — Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

The discovered fossil predates Homo erectus and could change what we know about ancient civilizations. Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived ...

A new archaeological find pushes back the timeline on when humans mastered the ability to make fires, a transformative ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially rewriting the story of human evolution. The ...

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results of a new study published this week. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and ...

In a new study, an international research team found that pre-Neolithic people in Southeast Asia were mummifying their died by smoke-drying them. This would make them the oldest human mummies made ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

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Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first discovered ...