Stable Ecology Linked to Cultural Continuity in West Africa Evidence from West Africa about human evolution remains scarce, but recent research has indicated unique patterns of cultural change in comparison to other regions of the continent. A new article in…
Stone tools reflect three waves of migration of the earliest Homo sapiens into Europe It was long thought that modern humans first ventured into Europe about 42,000 years ago, but newly analyzed tools from the Stone Age have upended this…
Teeth of the Red Lady: Ancient Oral Microbes Reconstructed and Their Chemical Creations Revealed About 19,000 years ago, a woman died in northern Spain. Her body was deliberately buried with pieces of the natural pigment ochre and placed behind a…
Southern Spain’s Nerja Cave Reveals Over 40,000 Years of Continuous Human Visits and Palaeolithic Art A cave in southern Spain has been continuously visited by humans for over 40,000 years, new research has revealed. After analyzing charcoal and soot left…
Oldest Human Discovered: Facial Reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian Who Lived 30,000 Years Ago Uncovered A lifelike facial approximation of a man who lived 30,000 years ago in what is now Egypt may offer clues about human evolution. In 1980, archaeologists…
Exploring Neanderthal Occupation and Resource Exploitation: A Spatial Analysis of Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter Site Abel Moclán, a predoctoral researcher attached to the Universidad de Burgos (UBU), the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), and the Institute of…
Ancient DNA puts a face on the mysterious Denisovans, extinct cousins of Neanderthals Researchers have been able to bring the now-extinct cousins of Homo sapiens, the Denisovans, back to life (of sorts)—offering us the first glimpse at what these little-understood…
7.2-million-year-old pre-human fossils challenge modern human evolution theory The first hominin species, a line that eventually leads to humans, may have emerged in Europe 7.2 million years ago and not Africa—the most widely accepted starting point for our ancestors. An…
Scientists discover remains of Hobbit human that stood only 3ft high and lived 700,000 years ago in Indonesia An international team of researchers has just announced the discovery of 700,000-year-old remains that are related to a tiny species of human…
The Origin of Blue Eyes: Scientists Trace Back to a Single Ancestor 6,000-10,000 Years Ago People with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor, according to new research. A team of scientists has tracked down a genetic mutation that leads…