A cave on the Turkish Mediterranean coast was inhabited first by Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens, but the continuity of ...

Elite Scythians such as the “Golden Man” inherited their lofty status and shared power during the Iron Age, DNA analysis ...

In 1969, archaeologists excavating the Issyk kurgan in southeastern Kazakhstan made a discovery that would become a national ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

In a landmark achievement for archaeology and the study of ancient philosophy, researchers have digitally “unrolled” and are ...

DNA preservation on cave walls is highly variable, but scientists say their work is an important step on the path toward ...

A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes.

A 1894 discovery on Java's Solo River, initially dubbed Java Man, has reshaped our understanding of early human origins.

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In the late nineteenth century, the search for humanity’s ancient ancestors was still driven more by speculation than by fossil evidence. That changed dramatically when Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois ...