Explore the incredible journey of Homo sapiens as they migrate from Africa, adapting and settling across the globe. Learn ...

Most people assume that only modern humans, Homo sapiens, bury and honor their dead in ritualistic ceremonies. Yet the oldest ...

New secrets from our past have been coming out in droves.

It’s 35 °C in the shade, amid Europe’s June heatwave, and Alexander Janas has just emerged from Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany, where the mercury reads 9 or 10 °C. “It’s wonderful to be ...

Nearly half a million years ago, ancient humans at Kalambo Falls in Zambia shaped and fitted together large pieces of wood to build a substantial structure. The discovery, dated to at least 476,000 ...

Replicas of a Homo habilis skull (right) and an early Homo sapiens skull (left), illustrating two key evolutionary trends in our genus: the significant increase in brain size and the simultaneous ...

Üçağızlı II Cave on Türkiye’s Mediterranean coast has yielded a rare and detailed record of two Homo species living the same way of life, one after the other, over more than 20,000 years, offering new ...

Violence, the care of injured or ill individuals, and funerary behaviour are among the most challenging aspects of the human past to reconstruct. A study published in Scientific Reports and led by ...

Researchers working with the Smithsonian pored over 10,061 artifacts and other elements to determine whether tiny ‘Homo floresiensis’ used fire or hunted big game. Reading time 3 minutes A 3D digital ...

While doing fieldwork on Indonesia’s Flores Island in the early 2000s, anthropologist Gregory Forth, PhD, frequently spoke to the locals living in the mountains. They told him that they sometimes ...

For millennia, humans have told stories about stealing fire from the gods. In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus gifts fire to humanity after sneaking it away from the gods’ home on Mount Olympus.

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...