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'It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens': How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our speciesAs experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa.
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1,300-year-old skeletons found in England had grandparents from sub-Saharan Africa, DNA studies revealA DNA analysis of two people who lived in Britain in the seventh century reveals they had recent African ancestry.
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'Oddly shaped head' left in Italian cave 12,500 years ago is Europe's oldest known case of cranial modification, study findsA Stone Age skull discovered in a cave in Italy is the oldest evidence of artificial cranial modification ever found in Europe.
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1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existedA handful of stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the date that human relatives arrived in the region.
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300,000-year-old teeth from China may be evidence that humans and Homo erectus interbred, according to new studyA study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features.
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Ancient human relative cannibalized toddlers, 850,000-year-old neck bone revealsCut marks on a child's cervical vertebra found at Atapuerca in Spain suggests Homo antecessor was indiscriminate about cannibalism victims.
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78,000-year-old footprints from Neanderthal man, child and toddler discovered on beach in PortugalA Neanderthal trackway discovered in Portugal shows how an adult male and two children hunted for food 78,000 years ago.
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Archaeologists discover that parties 11,000 years ago were BYOB — bring your own boarOpinion Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture — but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a communal gathering is even older.
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'Alien' skull of toddler is actually evidence of long-standing practice of head shapingWorkers digging a pipeline in Argentina found the flattened skull of an ancient toddler, raising questions about its asymmetrical shape.
