The recent discovery of rock art in a cave in Indonesia might signify more than just our ancestors’ artistic ability. The art ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, just yielded an ancient secret.

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

Last August, archaeologists discovered a number of artefacts in Indonesia that could transform theories of early human ...

The story of how humans first entered the Americas is among archaeology’s most persistent puzzles. For much of the 20th ...

When researchers digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.6-million-year to 1.5-million-year-old hominin from Ethiopia, the result wasn't the familiar look of early Homo erectus. Instead, the fossil ...

Archaeologists working at the Orozmani site in Georgia said they found a 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone. The jawbone, found alongside stone tools and animal fossils, is one of the oldest human ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...