Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder ...

Learn more about humans’ 3-million-year-long relationship with red meat, and how the food that shaped human evolution may now come with a high health and environmental cost in the modern age.

Somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago, the ancestors of modern East Asians interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Researchers extracted ancient proteins from six archaic humans and found something in common with other extinct relatives—and ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...

When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs ...

Tiny crystals hidden inside an ancient bone forced scientists to redraw the timeline of a famous Homo juluensis tool site.

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

Ice Age tools dating back 146,000 years, discovered in an ancient Chinese cave, reveal surprising human adaptations to a ...