A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

In a remarkable discovery along the Kalambo River in Zambia, archaeologists have uncovered a wooden structure that challenges ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

Learn how AI trained on modern finger flutings offers a first step toward identifying the makers of prehistoric art and could ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

The findings suggest that the acquisition of the modern NOVA1 variant may have protected us from the detrimental effects of ...

Turkish archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery of a lost land bridge that could transform our understanding of prehistoric human migration into Europe. A team of researchers identified ...