Ohio State University is seeing a huge increase in student enrollment for its forensic anthropology program. The program ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than 2 million years ago in northern Kenya. The collection of fossil bones has ...

Neanderthals bred with our human ancestors 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Experts have discovered that a five–year–old child who lived 140,000 years ago had ...

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A prehistoric human skeleton has been unearthed within an intricate underwater cave system off Mexico’s Caribbean coast, an area submerged since the close of the last ice age some 8,000 years ago.

The latest research on a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel is giving a clearer picture of how different early ...

Studying medieval skeletons is a direct way to obtain information about life in medieval societies with very little other information available about the living conditions of ordinary people. In this ...