Analysis - Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The spheres, made from volcanic basalt and lapilli, were discovered across eight archaeological sites in Melka Kunture, dated ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...