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

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

Homo aff. erectus has more primitive facial features ... It is remarkable that the Pleistocene—an epoch so recent in Earth’s history—hosted such a diversity of hominins in a region ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known bone tools—dated to 1.5 million years ago—at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, but gradually ... in recent times explored the ancient history of their ancestors, uncovering ...

The partial jawbone from a human ancestor nicknamed “Pink” is helping rewrite the history of hominin migration ... our famous evolutionary relative, Homo erectus. Hominins began migrating ...

Pink’s species may have even preceded Homo erectus, which was the first human ... a previously unknown chapter of human evolutionary history, scientists say that more information surrounding ...

Homo erectus first appeared in Africa roughly 1.9 million years ago ... "There are many questions to be answered, and this find helps to write a new page in the history of human evolution," Bermúdez ...

The study "introduces a new actor in the history of human evolution in Europe ... Pink bears some resemblance to Homo erectus, which is why it has been provisionally named Homo affinis erectus.

erectus recovered in level TE7 of the Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca ... The team of researchers hopes that the study of these remains will help clarify the complex migratory history of the ...