Discovered over a century ago, the late Upper Paleolithic archeological site included stone and bone tools, evidence of ...

Fossils unearthed at a quarry near Swindon are to go on display at a Cirencester museum. The finds, made at the Hills Quarry Products site in Cerney Wick, include a Neanderthal hand axe, mammoth teeth ...

The emergence of artistic expression, abstract thought, and symbolic behavior may have occurred much earlier in human history ...

Learn how with painstaking effort, archaeological artists bring back faces from the past.

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

Its large, low and wide shape was completely distinct from the skulls of other known hominin species such as Neanderthals or Homo erectus, and different from the globe-shaped skulls of Homo ...

Chris Green is a member of the Holocaust Education Committee of the Quad Cities, a group dedicated to teaching people about the history of the Holocaust. Green says her inspiration is Eva Kor, a ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems.

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Two distinct branches of the human family tree—modern humans and Neanderthals—crossed paths in a meeting that would forever change the genetic makeup of our species. The illuminated ...