Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

Learn more about the archaeological discovery of an ancient elephant carcass surrounded by hundreds of butchery tools.

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

Lead exposure from modern chemical pollution is a well-documented threat to neurodevelopment and general health, yet a ...

The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in South Africa, just over half a century ...

An analysis by Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, on the manual capabilities of early hominins reveals that some Australopithecus species exhibited hand use similar to modern humans. In ...

Located in the heart of eastern Africa, the Rift System is a prime region for human origins research, boasting extraordinary records of extinct human species and environmental records spanning several ...

The versatility that helped humans take over the world emerged very early in our evolutionary history, according to sediments and stone tools from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Olduvai has provided some ...

Human Evolution 1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed Human Evolution 2.6 million-year-old ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Geneticist. Anthropologist. Science writer. Denisova Cave, located in the foothills of the Altai mountains, is an extraordinarily ...