Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

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Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

The buried remains of a small child, discovered nearly a century ago in a cave on Israel’s Mount Carmel, are once again at ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

Neanderthals left behind various clues about their enigmatic lives. But less is known about their spiritual sides. Some archaeologists and anthropologists believe these early humans, who disappeared ...

While analyzing hundreds of Neanderthal bone fragments from a cave in Belgium, archaeologists discovered a horrifying secret: Six Neanderthals had been cannibalized 45,000 years ago, and the cannibals ...

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The Altamura Man was discovered in a cave in southern Italy in 1993. K.A.R.S.T. PRIN Project Neanderthals had a distinctive appearance. Before they died out roughly 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens’ ...

The study of an assemblage of Neanderthal human bones discovered in the Troisième caverne of Goyet (Belgium) has brought to light selective cannibalistic behavior primarily targeting female adults and ...

In 1856, quarry workers in a peaceful German valley stumbled across 16 bones that would shake the foundations of science. This is the incredible story of 'Neanderthal 1', the first ever Neanderthal to ...