In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

Worldwide, the oldest known artifact of this type is a bone knife that was manufactured by modern humans in Morocco around 90,000 years ago. The revelation that Neanderthals were also working with ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

A human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees suggests that someone survived a shot in the back several millennia ago.

The pair belonged to the species Homo habilis, an extinct hominin that’s one of the earliest representatives of the same genus as our species, Homo. They first appeared in East Africa around 2.4 ...