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

As far as art goes, it's not going to win any awards. But this large pebble might be the earliest known representation of a face, experts say.

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

In the Altai Mountains, in southern Siberia, lies the famous Denisova Cave, the only place in the world where the presence of ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

Spinney makes the case that PIE’s viral spread is, and I quote, “easily the most important event of the last five millennia ...

Bryan Johnson, a 47-year-old tech millionaire, has garnered significant attention for his extreme biohacking efforts, which ...

New DNA from the last Neanderthal challenges everything we thought about human evolution.

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

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 ...

An ancient spear tip, buried for 80,000 years, has just turned our understanding of prehistoric technology upside down.

A Neanderthal artefact found in a cave in the Caucasus Mountains is the oldest bone spear tip ever found in Europe, a new study has revealed.