Analyses of remnants of a volcanic blast push the age of East Africa’s oldest known H. sapiens fossils at Ethiopia’s Omo site to 233,000 years or more.
Fossils and DNA point to mixing and mingling among Homo groups across vast areas.
A previously unknown hominid species may have left its marks in muddy ash about 3.66 million years ago in what is now East Africa.
Fossil teeth from Chinese caves indicate that a single, ancient orangutan species gradually trimmed down over nearly 2 million years.
A new book recasts human social evolution as multiple experiments with freedom and domination that started in the Stone Age.
The isolated discovery of a Homo naledi child’s skull fragments and teeth plays into idea that small-brained species ritually placed the dead in caves.
Scientists have debated how the Falkland Islands’ only land mammal journeyed to the region: by a long-ago land bridge or with people.
Ancient DNA indicates that an enigmatic Bronze Age group consisted of genetic, but not cultural, loners.
Archaeologists have uncovered structures in Guatemala that are remarkably similar to La Ciudadela and its temple at the ancient city of Teotihuacan.
Burned seeds at an archaeological site in Utah hint at tobacco’s popularity long before it was domesticated.