The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are the ...
Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon ...
Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...
When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...
The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...
Human remains discovered along a riverbank in central Indiana date back more than 4,000 years, the local coroner stated. In a social media post on Monday, Fayette County Coroner Eddie Richardson said ...