Japanese Archipelago Was Once a Refuge for Cave Lions
Between 73,000 and 20,000 years ago (Late Pleistocene), the Japanese Archipelago was inhabited by cave lions (Panthera spelaea),…
Hidden Neanderthal skull reveals unexpected details about ancient nasal anatomy and climate adaptation
A Neanderthal skeleton, hidden deep in a limestone cave in southern Italy, has revealed a part of the…
Neanderthals’ Disappearance May Not Have Been from Extinction, Controversial New Study Argues
The disappearance of the Neanderthals—our archaic hominin cousins—remains one of the great unresolved riddles of ancient human history.…
80,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Footprints Found in Portugal
Archaeologists have discovered two Neanderthals tracksites in the southwestern most region of Europe: at Monte Clérigo, dated to…
Mystery early human relatives reached Sulawesi over a million years ago, oldest evidence found on ‘hobbit’ island neighbor
A set of ancient stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the timeline…