A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion.

Neanderthals, who did not have such clothing and possibly did not use ochre as sunblock, disappeared from Europe roughly ...

Researchers claim to have uncovered the "oldest face in Western Europe" after excavating fragments of a skull at the Sima del ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that may rewrite the map of human prehistory, fossilised genetic evidence has revealed that ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation. The first published study on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.