Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

A study suggests long scalp hair evolved as an adaptation to heat and later gained cultural significance. Researchers ...

H. erectus is a now-extinct species of early human that experts say arose some two million years ago in Africa. Walking upright, they had longer legs and shorter arms than previous hominins ...

"We reveal how early humans -- known as hominins -- were able ... says he was able to reconstruct past landscapes to simulate the East African region at the time. "Things like extreme climate ...

Researchers have claimed they have found one of the world's oldest mixed poisons in the world, dating back an incredible ...

Ancient Desert Dwellers Findings published by an international research team in Nature Communications Earth & Environment report that our early human relative, Homo erectus, lived in arid terrains in ...

A 7,000-year-old femur bone belonging to an antelope, discovered in a South African cave, has revealed the earliest confirmed use of a multi-component arrow poison. Three modified bone arrowheads were ...

Prior to this discovery, the site of Dmanisi in the country of Georgia was thought to contain the oldest evidence of hominin activity outside of Africa, dated to roughly 1.8 million years ago.

africanus with those of other extinct mammals from Sterkfontein and modern African mammals, the early humans appear to have had a variable diet, but not one rich in mammalian meat. The findings ...

Africa and Asia. The researchers focused on zooarchaeological data obtained from animal remains at sites in Europe that were once inhabited by humans. "We assume that when hunting, early humans ...