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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Researches links early Holocene dog lineages to human migrations across Eurasia as far back as 11,000 years ago.

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