The researchers suggest that this could be linked to violence between groups of ancient humans at the end of the last Ice Age.

In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil's Amazon, the country's Indigenous affairs agency and local witnesses said Thursday.

The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some archaeologists. The subtle patterns could be early signs of creativity and symbolic thinking in our stone-knapping ancestors. The study was published...

A 1.4-million-year-old fossilized jawbone found in South Africa belongs to a newly discovered species of Paranthropus, an extinct genus of human relatives, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Human Evolution.