The trepanation tool, which looks like a blade on which the end point was sharpened into a spike, came from a site once ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

Recent archaeological discoveries are challenging established narratives of human origins and creativity. A 64,000-year-old ...

(CNN) — An ancient skull dating back more than 6,000 years may have belonged to the earliest known human victim of a tsunami, scientists say. The Aitape skull -- named after a small coastal town in ...

Ancient DNA from the massive Harbin skull reveals it belonged to a Denisovan population closely related to modern humans. The ...

The average home -- manor, farm, or otherwise -- contains only the skulls which are still attached to living inhabitants. This is almost certainly true of your home, at least. (If not, well, get in ...

Oct. 9 -- A skull with a prominent brow and small face is at the center of an ugly spat between anthropologists who disagree over whether it belonged to a gorilla or human ancestor. If Michel Brunet ...

Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago. Reading time 3 minutes In 1960, a villager found something ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...

Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole.

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...