A recent study mapping the human brain reveals that our perception of time does not happen all at once, but rather unfolds across a series of distinct physical processing stages. As visual information travels from the back of the brain...

A new study published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology reports how scientists compiled a database of over 700 ancient containers. They suggest these objects helped early humans carry and move things more easily, to support how they lived and...

Around 60,000 years ago in Siberia, a Neanderthal opened their mouth so that a rotten tooth could be drilled — and the case is the oldest evidence of an intentional dental treatment to date, a new study finds.

The hominin family tree is more like a complicated, tangled bramble...Now, new evidence has emerged of this complex history. From three sites across China, archaeologists have identified proteins in six H. erectus teeth that contain a genetic variant also seen...