New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Research led by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ohio University has found evidence of hominin activity at a Romanian fossil site dating to at least 1.95 million years ago.

Researchers involved with the study uncovered new answers at Grăunceanu, a site that lies south of the Carpathian Mountains in a river valley that is rich in fossils. Looking for Hominin Evidence ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...

Scientists have used ancient proteins to determine the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old human relative, revealing new ...

“The last 50 years of fossil discoveries have made it clear that there wasn’t a single hominin lineage around at any point in the past (making humans today quite unique),” said Carrie ...

Madupe and her team have been working to recover traces of proteins from hominin fossils in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind, where at least six hominin species lived, including A. africanus (3. ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

The researchers acknowledge that they did not find any hominin fossils or lithics, stone tools, at the Grăunceanu site. However, they argue that their “detailed taphonomic analysis reveals ...