The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or ...

Analysis of a perfect jawbone found in Taiwan has given us new clues to the Denisovans, an enigmatic people with whom our ...

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

A team of scientists digging in Ethiopia in 1997 found stone tools, the fossil remains of several animal species, including hippopotamuses, and three hominid skulls. How old were they? The organic ...

It's only natural that we're curious about Neanderthals, our hominid kin who ... in the following feature as you uncover bones and artifacts and then try to figure out what the evidence suggests.

The hominids evolved and branched into at least twelve distinct species. Today, only one kind of hominid remains: Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the ...

The area is known as the Cradle of Humankind. Scientists have identified at least four hominid species—in addition to our own, Homo sapiens—that lived in this region at various times over the ...