A view of the excavation site at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa (all photo by Michael Chazen and all images courtesy the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, except as otherwise noted) “We can now say with ...

The finding, which was published in Nature, may provide insight into the origins of humanity’s use of symbols, which laid the foundation for language, mathematics and civilization. p pulse Follow Nine ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Although the image of our ancestors huddled up around the warm glow of a campfire is quite easily romanticized, by no means is it easy to demonstrate that early humans actually domesticated fire. For ...

Skhul Cave is the earliest of all known organized human burial sites, so the identity of the remains buried there is significant. The authors of the study, published in the July-August issue of the ...