Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

Displaying some resemblance to Homo erectus, the specimen has been assigned as Homo affinis (aff.) erectus, pending further analysis and categorization. Dr Rosa Huguet, who coordinated excavations at ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

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

The story about our ancestors can change at any moment thanks to the tireless work of researchers. In 2022, a team of experts unearthed fragments of a human skull in the Sima del E ...

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

We found the Olduvai bone tools in 2018 and recently described them in the journal Nature. They show that by 1.5 million years ago, our ancestors (Homo erectus) had already developed the cognitive ...