Close examination of a pebble excavated in central Spain suggests it may have been painted to look like a face tens of ...

Learn more about one of the oldest possible art pieces with a fingerprint from Europe, which may represent a human face.

Modern DNA suggests that the Denisovans were surprisingly diverse—and may have been the last humans other than Homo sapiens on Earth. These piercing eyes belong to a reconstruction of a ...

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South ...

In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...

Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains is the only spot on the planet that’s known to have been lived in by Denisovans, ...

A face-shaped pebble marked with a red dot that was discovered in a Spanish cave may be proof that Neanderthals engaged in ...

The question of where we come from is one that has fascinated humans for centuries,” states Dr. Trevor Cousins of the University of Cambridge. This classic question has had a seductive new twist with ...

An 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This discovery suggests they independently developed sophisticated hunting ...

Noting how the finger-painted red dot combines with a series of natural depressions in the pebble to form an image, the ...

His genome diverged from those of other late Neanderthals around 105,000 years ago. That’s a staggering timespan. Thorin’s ...