Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is known both for its rich record of early human fossils and for intense volcanic activity driven by shifting tectonic ...

Archaeological evidence of material exchange indicates that Neanderthals also possessed networks. However, relative to the ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

A child's skull discovered in a South African quarry in 1924 changed human history. Named the Taung Child, this fossil proved ...

Learn how archaeologists are using ancient charcoal deposits to understand what life was like for ancient humans 800,000 ...

Members of the Atapuerca Research Team from the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), the Centro ...

Researchers clarify the Hahnöfersand bone's origins, revealing it as a modern human fossil from the Mesolithic period.

CENIEH takes part in a study that places the arrival of North African–origin Acheulean technology in the Iberian Peninsula at ...

The terms hominid and hominin are often used interchangeably, but they do not mean the same thing. Hominids include all great ...

An international research team from Germany, the UK, and Greece has found evidence that wooden tools were used in Greece ...

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...