A discovery of Neanderthal footprints reveals insights into the hominin’s social structure.

Human remains around Roopkund Lake in India bear South Asian, East Asian, and Mediterranean ancestry.

Sequences from dozens of ancient remains from Siberia reveal the closest ancient relative of Native Americans found outside of North America.

A mandible dating to 160,000 years ago is the first evidence of Denisovan hominins outside the Russian cave where they were first discovered in 2010.

Isotope changes in the bones demonstrate a similar pattern across far-flung islands.

Genetic analysis of a bone fragment reveals the girl’s mixed ancestry 90,000 years ago. 

An 88,000-year-old finger bone places human ancestors in Arabia earlier than previously believed.

New research provides evidence that the ancient hominin species might not be so ancient after all.

The ancient human may have lived around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago—much more recently than previously estimated.