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…
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…
7-Million-Year-Old Sahelanthropus Fossils Bolster Case for Earliest Upright Walking
For more than two decades, Sahelanthropus tchadensis — a very early (6.7 to 7.2 million years old) hominin…
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…
Discovery sheds light on how 2 human ancestors coexisted
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Scientists have…
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…
One of the Most Complete Human Ancestor Fossils Called Little Foot May Be New Species
An international study led by researchers from Australia’s La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged…
Remarkable Fossil from South Africa May Be New Species of Australopithecus: Study
New research led by scientists from the University of Cambridge and Latrobe University challenges the classification of the…
Two Australopithecus Species Co-Existed in Ethiopia 3.4 Million Years Ago
In 2009, paleoanthropologists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments at…
Researchers Using Neanderthal DNA to Learn More About How Human Faces Develop and Evolve
University of Edinburgh scientist Hannah Long and colleagues show how a region of Neanderthal DNA is better at…
45,000-Year-Old Crimean Neanderthal Reveals Long-Distance Connections across Eurasia
The Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine contains key Middle to Upper Paleolithic transitional archaeological sites, including the site of…
Paranthropus boisei was Capable of Tool Making, New Fossil Suggests
Paleoanthropologists have unearthed and examined a hominin partial skeleton that includes hand and foot bones unambiguously associated with…