Homo sapiens

knapping, Stone Age tools, Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, Pleistocene epoch, Attirampakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, archaeology, human brain, hand axe, Out of Africa, Stone Age Institute,

Meet the Archaeologists Chiseling Stone Tools to Learn How Our Forebears Did It

Anupama Chandrasekaran 06/02/2019

Stone-tool experiments have revealed that archaic humans came to...

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Ancient Teenager the First Known Person with Parents of Two Different Species

Michelle Langley 31/08/2018

Ancient DNA in a 50,000+ year old bone tells...

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Warning Signs: How Early Humans First Began to Paint Animals

Derek Hodgson and Paul Pettitt 13/05/2018

Figurative art may derive from Neanderthal hand prints and...

A researcher works on surveying and mapping of the Al Wusta site in the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia. Credit: Klint Janulis/Handout via Reuters

Fossil Homo Sapiens Finger From Saudi Desert Is 90,000 Years Old

Will Dunham 11/04/2018

Its discovery has advanced a new understanding of how...

Some of the artefacts found in Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu. Source: SCHE

Ancient Stone Tools Found in Tamil Nadu Push Back ‘Out of Africa’ Exodus Date

Sarah Iqbal 02/02/2018

A recent discovery in Israel pointed to the possibility...

A close-up view of the teeth accompanying the left maxilla of human remains from Misliya Cave in Israel, the oldest remains of our species Homo sapiens found outside Africa, is provided in this photo released on January 25, 2018. Credit: Handout via Reuters/ Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University

Fossil Jawbone Found in Israel Is the Oldest Modern Human Found Outside Africa

Rolf Quam 26/01/2018

New discoveries are changing archaeologists' ideas about the origins...

The location of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco. Credit: Eric Gaba/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

The Humans of Jebel Irhoud – a Poem

Nandita Jayaraj 12/06/2017

New findings at a site in Morocco suggest that...