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S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...

Although no skeletal remains of Neanderthals or Homo sapiens have ever been found inside, there is abundant evidence of human ...

A groundbreaking study reveals the only known rock art site where Neanderthals and modern humans created art together.

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Fossils from Morocco, dated to 773,000 years ago, reveal an early Homo sapiens lineage, shedding light on Africa’s role in ...

Genetic evidence suggests the last shared ancestor of present-day humans, as well as ancient Neanderthals and Denisovans, ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

Scientists have detected traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads that were used by hunter-gatherers in South Africa about 60,000 years ago.

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...