Rachel Kushner takes inspiration from these scenarios in her Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, Creation Lake. The 56-year-old ...

The emergence of artistic expression, abstract thought, and symbolic behavior may have occurred much earlier in human history ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.

Ancestors or Relics? Neanderthals have long fascinated scientists and the general public alike. Are they our distant ...

A recent study has shed new light on the cognitive and cultural complexity of human societies during the Middle Paleolithic ...

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

Step back in time, folks, and imagine a world of primitive cave dwellers, clad in animal skins, and struggling to … Continue ...

This is a revision of an essay published in year 2021. Since then, notable advances in archaeological investigative techniques have been made ...

An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens, the only surviving ... the discovery of a pinkie bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia.

This conclusion overturns the long-standing assumption that only Homo sapiens, modern humans, had the ability to survive and flourish in extreme environments. Olduvai Gorge, often referred to as the ...