Neolithic people collected and deposited skull bones in the center of a village as part of a ritual tradition more than 7,000 years ago.

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe ... or perhaps to the more enigmatic Denisovans. Humans aside, however, the skull's shape presented a conundrum, one that led us to embark on ...

Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several ... (MPI-EVA), and involved sequencing the genomes from the skull of a human specimen, called Zlatý kůň, that is about 45,000 years old ...

They also examined bone fragments from an early human population ... artist’s illustration of an ancient human that scientists call Zlatý kůň, whose skull was found in the Czech Republic..

TRACYTON, Wash. — A human skull found on the side of a busy road in Kitsap County was "likely a medical specimen at some point," according to the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office. The skull ...