Anthropology

A new analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old human vertebra found in Israel suggests that ancient human relatives dispersed out of Africa in multiple waves.

People were raising cassowaries, the world's most dangerous bird, some 18,000 years ago, new research shows.

A new analysis of shoes that may have belonged to the Renaissance artist Michelangelo revealed his small stature.

Ancient DNA from a woman who lived 7,200 years ago reveal she belongs to a vanished human lineage.

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare instance of Neanderthal-created art in a German cave once famous for its "unicorn bones."

"The Boy of Gran Dolina," a young individual in the extinct Homo antecessor species found at a site in Spain, is actually female, according to new analysis of dental remains.

Early members of the genus Homo didn't have advanced brains.

Some human ancestors are known only as "ghost" populations.

Changes previously thought to be sex differences in a human relative are actually due to microevolution, a new study finds.

These are the most complete articulated Neanderthal remains to be found in more than 25 years.

Archaeologists found the upper body of a Neanderthal who lived about 70,000 years ago.

The ancient DNA from four children who lived thousands of years ago is rewriting what geneticists thought happened in sub-Saharan Africa.

A prehistoric, broken skull is revealing the secrets of ancient humans, divulging that early modern humans left Africa much earlier than previously thought, a new study finds.

The teeth came from a genetically distinct population of humans.

After a treacherous volcanic eruption during the Bronze Age, curious humans and their canine companions hiked closer to the volcano, where they left footprints in the fine-grained volcanic ash.

After leaving their footprints in volcanic ash, did Bronze Age humans paint this picture of an erupting volcano?

The ancient bones and teeth of a previously unknown human relative — one that was even smaller than the so-called Hobbit — have been discovered deep in a cave on an island in the Philippines.