One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

How do you reassure another person? Studies repeatedly show that holding their hand, firmly but unobtrusively, is an excellent way of doing the trick. It presumably reminds people subliminally of ...

It marks the first time significant remains older than 1 million years old have been discovered in Western Europe.

From outside, this vast construction is about size, scale and spectacle. Once inside, it becomes more about appreciating how ...

Archaeologists have made a breakthrough that could rewrite the prehistory of Asia, uncovering Thailand's oldest human ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...