Archaeologists excavate near the cave at the Sima del Elefante site, near Burgos in northern Spain, where the fossilized skull fragments were found. - Maria D. Guillén/IPHES-CERCA The story of human ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

After a recent fossil discovery, we now have new insights into the behaviors of a group of prehistoric humans. A team of international researchers working with the Evolutionary Studies Institute at ...

HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

Archaeological excavation work at El Mirador site, where archeologists are finding evidence of prehistoric human cannibalism. Some of the roughly 5,700-year-old human bones uncovered at El Mirador ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years ...

Tracking the origin and evolution of human populations in Arabia / Jeffrey I. Rose and Michael D. Petraglia -- The Red Sea, coastal landscapes, and hominin dispersals / Geoff Bailey -- Pleistocene ...

(CNN) — The story of human evolution in Europe has a new character. Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that ...

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