Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.
Along the southwestern coast of Portugal, fossilized footprints preserved in ancient dunes provide a rare glimpse into ...
New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...
A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...
The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly 350,000 years. Until now, the oldest confirmed evidence had come from Neanderthal ...
Research focused on human remains found at the Troisième caverne of Goyet, a cave site in present-day Belgium that contains ...
More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...