A wide-ranging review in the Journal of Comparative Neurology which describes the relationship between fossils and cognition following the tenets of cognitive archaeology, namely, by applying psychological models to those behaviors relevant to human evolution
There is no proof that ‘Homo naledi’ exhibited cognitively advanced behaviors, such as intentional burial of the dead and rock art
Is the Melun Diptych, 15th century French painting, depicting an Acheulean handaxe, an ancient stone tool used by hominins?
The earliest Europeans were efficient scavengers: scavenging could have been a successful strategy for the first hominins in the Iberian Peninsula
The limestone spheroids of ‘Ubeidiya: were they an intentional imposition of symmetric geometry by early hominins?
An extreme glacial cooling event around 1.1 million years ago challenges the idea of continuous early human occupation of Europe
Humans’ evolutionary relatives butchered one another 1.45 million years ago in today’s Kenya, according to a new study in Scientific Reports
Human ancestors preferred mosaic landscapes and high ecosystem diversity, according to a new study in the journal Science
Surprising similarities in stone tools of early humans and monkeys; the study has been published in Science Advances
A new study ratifies that carnivores did not participate in the accumulation of human remains in the Sima de los Huesos
