The burial site Chega Sofla has many skeletons with elongated skulls, likely from a practice called cranial bandaging where ...

A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has uncovered how the MN1 gene evolved to shape both the ...

A striking discovery in northern Argentina has reignited curiosity about the origins and cultural practices of ancient ...

Archaeologists in Iran have uncovered a 6,200-year-old cone-headed skull, revealing early cranial modification and signs of a ...

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

A Neanderthal skull, one of the most complete yet ... It’s a near miracle of efficient design, in which evolution shaped a viral component into a human component. Heidmann and I broke for ...

If true, it's a type of artificial cranial deformation process where the skull of a child is deliberately flattened to elongate the shape ... urns containing human remains, one containing the ...

Scientists have identified the sex of a 2-million-year-old hominin for the first time using enamel protein analysis.

Due to their size and abundance, these creatures shaped the ecosystems in which they lived – but today all are nearly gone ...

This is the beginning of what I call Aetas Mentis —the Age of the Mind. A new perspective or phase of human cognition, not ...

Today, science has brought Zosia’s story back to life. Researchers from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland, along with ...