A fossil mandible was discovered on the seabed of the Penghu Channel in Taiwan; it belonged to a male Denisovan
Cleveland Museum of Natural History researchers propose new hypothesis for the origin of stone tools: an origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature
Atapuerca rewrites the history of Europe’s first inhabitants with the oldest known face in Western Europe: a fossil of Homo affinis erectus from Sima del Elefante
The oldest collection of prehistoric bone tools from Olduvai Gorge, mass-produced by hominins during the transition from Oldowan to Acheulean
Ancient engravings shed light on early human symbolic thought and complexity in the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic
Homo erectus at the Olduvai Gorge adapted to extreme climatic conditions, challenging our preconceptions of the adaptability of the earliest hominins
Early Hominin toolmaking at the Melka Wakena site, in Ethiopia, sheds light on Engineering ingenuity; a study published in PLoS ONE
Deciphering how the ancestors of the human species moved around: new insights on locomotion and bipedalism
Homo juluensis lived approximately 300,000 years ago in eastern Asia; it was proposed that the new species include the enigmatic Denisovans
The ecosystems of northern Africa where the first hominins arrived are reconstructed: the work at the Guefaït-4 site