Ancient humans were living in the highlands of what is now Ethiopia as early as 2 million years ago. A reanalysis of a fossilised jawbone from the region confirms that it belonged to a Homo erectus, ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo erectus. The digging sticks, curved root-slicers, and a handful of somewhat ...

Researchers say the remains are “a mosaic of primitive and derived traits never seen before.” Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Our early human ancestors might have been more adaptable than previously thought: New research suggests Homo erectus was able to survive—and even thrive—after its home in East Africa shriveled up and ...

An illustration of the Homo erectus child with her mother in the Ethiopian highlands, two million years ago Diego Rodríguez Robredo Archaeologists are rewriting the story of an early human child whose ...

Found in a Greek cave in 1959, the Petralona skull has puzzled scientists for decades. Dated to nearly 700,000 years ago, it ...

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Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...