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

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

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

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

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 ...

Now, according to The Guardian, a new analysis has now found the skull fragment to be the oldest human fossil ever found outside of Africa. Published in the journal Nature, the research estimates that ...

"The same technique can and is being used to study other hominin fossils to determine whether they too are Denisovans, Neanderthals or other hominin populations," study co-author Frido Welker ...

In a world striving to combat climate change, the focus turns to a controversial figure battling for fossil fuels. What does ...

Credit: L.V. Golovanova et al. The site’s dating, supported by genetic analysis of Neanderthal fossils found in the same layer, confirms that the artifact predates the arrival of modern humans in ...

Comparison of CT scans of a Neanderthal fossil and a modern human. Credit: Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, shows that this early ...

The results showed that the Schöningen fossils are more recent than those from other sites ... which places the spears in the Middle Pleistocene—a period during which Neanderthals already inhabited ...