Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago, revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing ...

A research group led by the Nagoya University Museum and Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Japan has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans ...

The new findings place early modern humans in northwestern Europe 45,000 years ago and indicate that they were highly adaptable to the region’s subarctic conditions. Excavating the LRJ layers at Ranis ...

"Peopling of the Americas publications." "Arising from a 2011 symposium sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, this manuscript gathers the work of archaeologists from the ...

The increase in the productivity of stone tool cutting-edge (shown in white lines) did not occur before or at the beginning of Homo sapiens’ wide dispersals in Eurasia but subsequently occurred after ...

Simulations suggest Neanderthals were on the brink of extinction by the time our ancestors arrived on the Iberian Peninsula.

Paleolithic human populations survived even in the coldest and driest upland parts of Spain, according to a new study. Paleolithic human populations survived even in the coldest and driest upland ...

Archaeologists are moving away from the idea of a "linear progression" of weapons, suggesting early humans were versatile ...