One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

Penelope J. Corfield from Royal Holloway, University of London, explores the symbolism of handshaking throughout human ...

It marks the first time significant remains older than 1 million years old have been discovered in Western Europe.

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

When did the first humans start speaking? Did we always have this ability, inherited from our immediate ancestors? These questions sound impossible to answer — but not quite so. A new study, drawing ...

A history of the peasant way of life, a book from one of Italy’s foremost feminists, a study of ancient wisdom of Mesopotamia ...

Most of a human face found in northern Spain belongs ... It is remarkable that the Pleistocene—an epoch so recent in Earth’s history—hosted such a diversity of hominins in a region as ...

From outside, this vast construction is about size, scale and spectacle. Once inside, it becomes more about appreciating how ...

Did early humans have rules for how words could be strung together? What impact did this have on their brains and behaviour?

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral ...

Recent science developments include the launch of NASA's SPHEREx telescope to explore the universe's origins, discoveries of ancient human fossils in Spain, a postponed NASA-SpaceX astronaut swap, and ...

Science has helped solve the mystery of who a set of human remains found near Lloydminster in 1997 belonged to. A man’s body ...