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500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer shows ancient humans were master toolmakers

Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly 500,000 years ago. The extraordinary find reveals that ancien...

How ancient humans made their beds: 200,000-year-old grass reveals a prehistoric cleaning routine

Ancient grass bedding found in a South African cave shows early humans cared for sleeping areas. These hunter-gatherers arranged plant materials and used fire to maintain their re...

A Lost Human Lineage May Have Left a Genetic Legacy in People Today

Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans. For much of the 20th century, human evolution was often pictur...

Mystery hominin left big footprints at ancient lake in Africa

Over 1.4 million years ago, a group of eight ancient hominins walked across a shallow mudflat, but their footprints don’t match those of Paranthropus boisei or Homo erectus

Ancient ‘hobbits’ feasted on Komodo dragons’ leftovers

The hominins may have gone on adventures, but they lacked key skills of modern humans

Scientists discover what kept ancient campfires burning for generations

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans living beside a lake in what is now Israel may have chosen the location for one surprisingly practical reason: firewood. Researchers discover...

Tiny Ice Age Artifacts Discovered In The Hohle Fels Cave May Reveal Why The Human Species Survived

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com - Two tiny Ice Age artifacts, hidden for 40,000 years, may help explain why our species survived. Archaeologists recently excavated these nearly 40...

Artefacts hint at cultural exchange between Neanderthals and humans

A cave on the Turkish Mediterranean coast was inhabited first by Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens, but the continuity of tools and personal objects suggests there was some sharin...

The 85-million-year timeline of human evolution

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human evolution is, stretching back millions of years to whe...

Ancient Humans May Have Evolved a Remarkable Trick to Survive The Last Ice Age

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Ancient Footprints Reveal Eight Human Relatives Walked Together Along a Kenyan Lakeshore 1.4 Million Years Ago

Learn how 21 fossil footprints show that some P. boisei stood six feet tall and crossed Lake Turkana’s shore in a mostly male group.

Archaeologists Discover a 10,000-Year Human History Hidden in the Pyrenees

Carbon-14 dates show that people repeatedly occupied high Pyrenean landscapes throughout the Holocene. The high Pyrenees may look like one of Europe’s last untouched wildernesses,...

Unidentified “Ghost” Population Contributed DNA To The Ancestors Of All Modern Humans

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new computational method can find traces of ancient hominin ancestry in modern humans without needing archaic reference genomes. This method has r...

Human in Israel smashed in the face with a rock 100,000 years ago

The dual nature of humanity may have emerged much earlier than thought, going by the survival of a person slammed in the jaw in Qafzeh Cave, and some pretty sick children

Some of the Last Remnants of Ancient Civilizations

Rare 8,000-Year-Old Rock Shelter Captures a Turning Point in Human History

A Catalan rock shelter preserves a rare record of the transition from hunter-gathering to farming. For thousands of years, people repeatedly returned to a rock shelter above the Mo...

Ancient human DNA found on cave art for the first time

DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrating the potential to one day identify individual artists and resolve the debate o...

How humans evolved to be twice as big as our ancestors

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually smaller than us, in both height and body mass. Columnist Mich...

A 12,900-year-old cave in Türkiye reveals a forgotten world of hunter-gatherers and ancient fires

The Koskarlı Cave in Türkiye has unveiled a remarkable 12,900-year-old layer showcasing the life of hunter-gatherers. This extraordinary find includes evidence of Epipalaeolithic...

Ancient DNA reveals the mysterious collapse of Europe's megalith builders

DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were genetically unrelated, pointing to a major migration aft...

Unexpectedly Large Hominins Identified From 1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints By An African Lake

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study documents a set of fossil footprints preserving a snapshot of “fossil behavior” from an ancient hominin group along a lakeshore in north...

Neanderthals and Modern Humans May Have Shared a Shell-Collecting Tradition in Türkiye for 20,000 Years

Learn how shells found in a Turkish cave may show Neanderthals and modern humans shared culture, tools, and symbolic habits.

Rare Neanderthal baby fossil reveals our ancient relatives may have begun life much like modern humans

New Fossils From Spain's Gran Dolina Cave Reveal Ancient Cannibalism and New Clues About <em>Homo antecess...

Learn more about the newly discovered Homo antecessor fossils from Spain's Gran Dolina cave, which suggest that cannibalism involved adults as well as children.