Apidima 2 appears to be a Neanderthal and is later than the modern human skull People living outside Africa today trace their ancestry to a migration that left the continent 60,000 years ago.

The skull, not much smaller than a modern human's, was far larger than they had been accustomed to examining at the synchrotron's "I12" imaging beamline. The South African researchers had first ...

A piece of skull found in a cave in Greece suggests our human ancestors left Africa far earlier than anthropologists thought. A study published today in the journal Nature reveals that the skull ...

in South Africa, by the anthropologist Raymond Dart. He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ape-like appearance but human characteristics. Australopithecines were small, with long ...

Ancient skulls pillaged by German invaders from East Africa have been traced to living relatives, thanks to DNA analysis, Berlin's Museums authority (SPK) said Tuesday. The discovery of ...

The Berlin museum authority said Wednesday that it was ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former German colony of East Africa after having researched their origin for several years.

Archaeologists have found evidence that dramatically rewrites human history. A 210,000-year-old Homo sapiens skull fragment ...