146,000-year-old Ice Age humans used advanced stone tools for butchery and survival
A new study from central China is changing how scientists think about creativity and survival among ancient humans.…
Why Did the Neanderthals Disappear? Scientists Reveal Humans Had a Hidden Advantage
A new study using ecological modeling techniques suggests that Neanderthal extinction cannot be explained by climate or competition…
Mystery of Neanderthal Extinction Deepens as Study Finds Climate and Competition Not Sole Causes
Neanderthal extinction resulted from a complex mix of geography, demographics, and regional pressures. Credit: GreekReporter Archive A new…
Neanderthal Babies Were Apparently Built Different and Reached Toddler Size in Only Six Months
AI-generated illustration of a Neanderthal toddler. Credit: ZME Science. When scientists examined the incredibly well-preserved skeleton of a…
A Hundred Thousand Years Ago, Humans and Neanderthals Built a Shared Culture in This Cave
Artistic depiction of an ancient Neanderthal around a campfire. Humans and Neanderthals not only coexisted and interbred, but…
60,000-year-old markings on ostrich eggs reveal oldest geometric grammar
Researchers have discovered and analyzed the world’s oldest geometric patterns on 60,000-year-old ostrich egg fragments, revealing the complex…
China’s Xigou Site Yields Evidence of Advanced Stone Tool Technology
Technological innovations in Africa and Western Europe in the later part of the Middle Pleistocene signal the behavioral…
Anthropologists Still Can’t Agree On The Answer
The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s…
Enigmatic Hominins May Have Overlapped with Homo sapiens on Sulawesi
At Leang Bulu Bettue, a rock-shelter in the Maros-Pangkep karst region on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, paleoanthropologists…
Researchers Sequence Genome of 200,000-Year-Old Denisovan
A research team led by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology scientists has generated the high-quality genome assembly…
European Homo sapiens May Have Been Hunting with Bow and Arrow Earlier than Previously Believed
In a new paper published this month in the journal iScience, researchers from the University of Tübingen and…
New Research Explores Paleolithic Transition from Neanderthals to Anatomically Modern Humans
The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition approximately 50,000 to 38,000 years ago is marked by the decline and…