Learn more about the ancient footprints found in Greece, which could upend theories on hominin emigration from Africa.

A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and ...

The Oldowan stones are believed to be the oldest known examples of stone tool industry in the world. Their development around ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

Edited by C. Owen Lovejoy, Kent State University, Kent, OH, and approved March 23, 2012 (received for review December 3, 2011) ...

After nearly three years of closure due to flooding, the world-renowned Sterkfontein caves—part of South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind—have reopened with an immersive experience that allows visitors to ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. One of the most vexing unsolved problems in human ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This artist rendering shows hands of early human ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for early human ancestors , too. Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place stress ...

One is the hand of Australopithecus sediba, first discovered in 2010 at the site of Malapa and dated to approximately two million years old. The other hand skeleton is from the more recent ...