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.

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

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

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

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...