A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Human skull fashioned into a cup. Museum scientists Dr Silvia Bello ... new dating techniques and climate data are providing a more accurate picture of the conditions in which our ancient relatives ...

Among the ruins of ancient cities scattered across northeastern Spain, archaeologists have uncovered a grisly yet fascinating relic of the past: severed human skulls, pierced with iron nails ...

URUMA, Okinawa Prefecture--Human remains dating ... to help fill in the gap between ancient humans and later inhabitants until the latest discovery. “A skull contains many pieces of ...

It was the first ancient human species ever identified and is now known as Neanderthal 1 or Feldhofer 1, after the original name of the cave where it was found. This skull belonged to a Neanderthal ...

Scientists say a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old ...

Our ancient ancestors have done some interesting things to human bones over the years, but one example from the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula is a real puzzle. There, in multiple locations, ...

Some are actual human size and of very fine detail ... to say the least. Skulls were prominent in ancient Mesoamerican artwork, particularly among the Aztec, so the connection between these ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern humans. The archaeological record ...