A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden artifacts at the ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

How does climate change affect the way humans organize themselves? How has it shaped the course of human evolution? An ...

THE face of humans’ most mysterious ancestor has finally been uncovered after 217,000 years. The discovery proves that the ‘Dragon Man’ of China is indeed a Denisovan, a long lost… ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

“I really feel that we have cleared up some of the mystery surrounding this population,” said Qiaomei Fu, a professor at the Institute of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, part of the Chinese ...

The new research, described in two scientific papers published Wednesday, is “definitely going to be among, if not the, biggest paleoanthropology papers of the year,” and will spur debate in the field ...