Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

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It is impressive how Generative AI can conjure a “day in the life” image of a Neanderthal in seconds. But a new study suggests those scenes often come with a dash of built-in time travel. Researchers ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

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Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

The latest discoveries in Central China's Henan province are filling critical gaps in understanding East Asia's role in human ...