A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

This mammoth tusk boomerang was discovered in Layer VIII of the Upper Paleolithic cave site. Interestingly, this ancient ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Europe’s earliest known boomerang, carved from mammoth tusk and over 40,000 years old, reveals advanced skills of early Homo ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

The new dating of an object found decades ago in Poland reinforces the idea that early humans in Central Europe had ...

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

According to a new study published Wednesday in Nature, ancient Homo sapiens developed the flexibility to survive by finding food and other resources in a wide variety of difficult habitats before ...

A mammoth tusk artefact discovered in a Polish cave could be Europe’s earliest example of a boomerang and even the oldest ...

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...

An artist's impressioniof a Neanderthal father and daughter. Unlike early Homo sapiens and the Neanderthals, it is extremely rare to find Denisovan remains . Seán Duke. Mon Apr 14 2025 - 06:00.