Homo erectus, emerging two million years ago, marked a key step in human evolution. This exploration examines their lifestyle, behavior, and the wild Pleistocene world they navigated.

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not ...

Archaeologists made the discovery in a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa - that was once ...

A groundbreaking study led by Bar-Ilan University reveals that starch-rich plants played a central role in the diet of ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

For decades, archaeologists and historians pointed to climate change, rivers, or fertile land as the main reasons early people gave up hunting and gathering to grow food. But new research now ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...

The identified shifts in regional population sizes provide new insights into how early humans responded to the environmental challenges of their time. The study focuses on two key periods ...