There is no proof that ‘Homo naledi’ exhibited cognitively advanced behaviors, such as intentional burial of the dead and rock art
An interdisciplinary project led by primatologist Gisela Kopp is using genetic analysis to determine the geographic origin of mummified baboons found in ancient Egypt
Researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared with genetic sequences from modern birds
Pollen analysis suggests peopling of Siberia and Europe by modern humans occurred during a major Pleistocene warming spell
A well-preserved wooden structure at the archaeological site of Kalambo Falls, Zambia, dating back at least 476,000 years, is world’s oldest
Stone age artists carved detailed human and animal tracks in rock art from the Doro !Nawas Mountains in central Western Namibia; the study is published on PLoS ONE
The need to hunt small prey compelled prehistoric humans to produce appropriate hunting weapons and improve their cognitive abilities
St Helena’s “liberated” Africans came from West Central Africa between northern Angola and Gabon, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
The limestone spheroids of ‘Ubeidiya: were they an intentional imposition of symmetric geometry by early hominins?
Early ancestral bottleneck in the early to middle Pleistocene could’ve spelled the end for humans, a study published on Science
