New research shows that the weapons found in Germany are much younger than previously thought, suggesting they were made by ...

Archaeologists in Germany have identified a set of wooden spears that might be younger than previous estimates. This shift in ...

Neanderthals, among the best-documented pre-modern humans, emerged around 250,000 years ago from European populations that existed between 500,000 and 250,000 years ago.

Jawbones in Neanderthal fossils are higher and more gracile. It is possible that some other fossils thought to be Denisovan candidates could be females, and there may be others which have been ...

Although DNA could not be extracted directly from the Penghu 1 fossil due to material degradation, scientists applied mass spectrometry techniques to analyze the jawbone and determine that it belonged ...

THE mystery of a robust ancient jawbone with large teeth and what species it belongs to has baffled scientists since it was dredged up in the 2000s. But in a new study, scientists say the bone may ...

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

The famous Schöningen spears, discovered in Germany in 1994, are considered the oldest weapons made by hominins that have ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...