An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

The field of archaeology is known by many for its numerous controversies. Because archaeologists only study what few artifacts remain from a given time period, we often get a fragmentary or incomplete ...

Ian Towle receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). Luca Fiorenza receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). For decades, small grooves on ...

The fossil found in Misliya cave. Details of the teeth — their shapes and sizes relative to each other — helped scientists confirm that this belongs to Homo sapiens. Archaeologists in Israel have ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.