Cut marks on a child's cervical vertebra found at Atapuerca in Spain suggests Homo antecessor was indiscriminate about ...

A new study published in L’Anthropologie is shedding light on a remarkable discovery from Skhul Cave in Israel. Researchers ...

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our ...

According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...

This evidence poses the question of why current human populations are predominantly descended from the latest “out of Africa” ...

The lab, founded in the late 1980s by Ethiopia’s first paleoanthropologist, Berhane Asfaw, was set up to prevent the export ...

Ancient proteins reveal new insights into Paranthropus robustus fossilsFossil protein analysis shows both sexes and ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Ultimately, our species – Homo sapiens – appeared in South Africa 153,000 years ago. Fossils of P. robustus were first discovered in South Africa in 1938. But crucial questions remained.