Neanderthals May Have Used the World’s First Antibiotic 50,000 Years Ago
Creating birch tar using Neanderthal methods. Image credits: University of Cologne. If you were a Neanderthal hunter 50,000…
Neanderthal men may have chosen human women more often, reshaping human history: DNA study suggests |
Ancient history often feels distant and abstract, reduced to fossil fragments and textbook timelines. Yet every so often,…
Humans Sketched Oddly Precise Geometric Patterns Onto Ostrich Eggs 60,000 Years Ago
Ostrich eggs are huge. Big enough, in fact, for ancient humans to use them as primitive writing surfaces…
Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought
Complex prehistoric tools unearthed at an archaeological site in central China are upending long-standing assumptions about human evolution,…
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…
How Fearsome Wolves Became Loyal Dogs — and Changed Human History Forever
The dog diverged from a now-extinct population of wolves 27,000–40,000 years ago, before or during the Last Glacial…
Early humans mastered fire-making 400,000 years ago, new study reveals
A new study from a well-known Paleolithic site in eastern England has revealed that early humans mastered fire-making…
Neanderthals and early humans reshaped Europe’s landscapes long before the rise of agriculture, study finds
A recent study published in PLOS One reveals that Neanderthals and early modern humans began to reshape Europe’s…
Lead exposure may have influenced brain and language development in early humans and Neanderthals
A new study published in Science Advances suggests that humans and their ancestors were exposed to lead nearly…
Eating carrion reconsidered: how scavenging shaped human evolution and made us human
A new multidisciplinary study led by the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), in collaboration with…
Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch
A model of a Neanderthal woman Joe McNally/Getty Modern humans may indeed have wiped out Neanderthals – but…
Million-year-old fossil changes what we know about human hands and feet
Newly discovered fossils in Kenya reveal that Paranthropus boisei, once seen as a simple plant-eater, had surprisingly human-like…