Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed 10 "extremely rare" prehistoric stone hand axes that were crafted to deliberately include geological features, including fossils and geodes, a new study finds.

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including those of a previously unknown Homo erectus population. A team of scientists ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

Three Homo erectus skulls previously unearthed in China are almost 1.8 million years old, around 600,000 years older than originally thought, a new study finds. This revelation has made the Yunxian ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Researchers found this hand ax, which appears to have been shaped around a geological feature imprint. R. Barkai et al., Tel Aviv, 2026 under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Many modern humans love collecting unique ...

For years, the Java Sea looked like a gap in the record. Some of the most important Homo erectus fossils ever found came from nearby Java, but the shallow seabed between the islands seemed to hold ...

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs.