Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

The Smithsonian uncovered that the charred remains of the world's first "proto pancake" were discovered 70,000 years ago at the Shanidar Cave complex in Iraq. The ancient flat cake has since been ...

As per a report by news agency AFP, the woman was named Shanidar Z, after the cave in Iraq's Kurdistan where the skull was discovered. This discovery also led to the investigation of over 40 ...

The anthropologist Margaret Mead was just over five feet tall and had to stand on a suitcase to be seen above ...

VAIL, Ariz. — Exciting things are happening at Colossal Cave for the first time in decades. The team there has uncovered a few new parts of the cave, and they actually went inside them.

Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that lived more than 1.1 million years ago, according to new research.