THE mystery of a robust ancient jawbone with large teeth and what species it belongs to has baffled scientists since it was dredged up in the 2000s. But in a new study, scientists say the bone may ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, proving that the archaic humans were distributed widely over Asia.

For more than one million years, naturally occurring basalt rock spheres have been used by hominin species as a type […] ...

Louis pursued a breathtaking range of interests ... Pithecanthropus, now called Homo erectus, or erect man, had been discovered in Java just before the turn of the century, and in the 1920s ...

A 500,000-year-old tool-making workshop, potentially the oldest in North India, has been discovered in the Mangar Bani ...

For University of California palaeoanthropologist Tim White the dates were irrelevant, however, as Naledi was merely a primitive, smaller version of the long-known hominin Homo erectus.

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

These Homo sapiens—nomadic hunter-gatherers who ... who have come from both sides of the mountain range and have the same cultural tradition. At these meetings they share experiences, but ...