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 ...
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 ...
Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...
The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...
A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...
Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.
“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...
Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.
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.
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