Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like ...

THE ‘Sima del Elefante’ (‘Chasm of the Elephant’) is a chain of underground caves in a limestone outcrop near Atapuerca, a ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

resembling Homo erectus, particularly in its flat and underdeveloped nasal structure," explained María Martinón, director of the National Center for Research on Human Evolution and the study’s ...

The 27 tools, discovered at a rich paleoanthropological site called Olduvai Gorge, were probably created by Homo erectus ... butchering animal carcasses for food, they said.

These skulls belong to Homo erectus, but they are much smaller than typical Homo erectus fossils, leading scientists to classify them as a subspecies known as Homo erectus georgicus. The Dmanisi ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the Sima del Elefante cave, located in the Atapuerca mountains of Spain, is changing what we know about the first humans in Western Europe. Researchers have identified a ...

Spanish researchers have found the remains of a facial fragment in Atapuerca, in northern Spain, which has been identified as the oldest known face in Western Europe, with an age of between 1.1 ...

They have classified them as Homo aff. erectus, which means they might be Homo erectus, but it is not certain. There is also a possibility that the bones could be from a completely different species, ...

The team plans to continue excavating to explore the deepest layers of the Sima del Elefante site, where the Homo aff. erectus face was discovered.

The partial skull bears similarities to Homo erectus, but there are also some anatomical differences, said study co-author Rosa Huguet, an archaeologist at the Catalan Institute of Human ...