After a contentious sojourn in the lab of a senior Indonesian paleoanthropologist, most of the ancient hominid bones from the Indonesian island of Flores, published to acclaim in Nature last fall, are ...

The announcement in November of the discovery of what appears to be a near-intact hominid skull in China is a stunning discovery. It has the potential of further revealing the complex intricacies of ...

A 77,000-year-old grass mattress is the earliest bed in the archaeological record. What did earlier hominids sleep on? Hominid Gifts for the Holidays Human evolution T-shirt, necktie, coloring book ...

Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. CRADLE OF HUMANKIND, South Africa • Nine-year-old Matthew Berger dashed after his dog, Tau, into the high grass in Cradle of ...

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It is August 15 2008. On the ground, amid the long, dry grass of the Highveld, two men, a boy and a dog are staring at an object the boy is holding. It is a rock — but one with a difference. It ...

Inside a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa sit the fragile remains of the world’s most celebrated human ancestor. She was once a hardy survivor in an ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools. Even with recovered foot fossils, Mongle’s team ...

Neanderthal injuries are often compared to those of rodeo riders, but these cowboys may not be the best guide to our cousins’ trauma The Clovis Weren’t the First Americans Projectile points found in ...