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 ...
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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 ...
The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.
A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...
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In the narrow passageways of prehistoric caves, where torchlight once flickered against limestone walls, a quiet record of ...
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Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...