THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2023 - Prof Chris StringerTitle: Mostly Out of Africa: how, when and where Held on Tuesday 7 November 2023 at the Natural History...

Italian archaeologists believe most of Neanderthals were killed by hyenas then dragged back to den

The bone fragment was found at Castlepook Cave near Doneraile in north Cork where a mammoth bone was discovered in 1972.

Nature - Fossil from Greece is the earliest known Homo sapiens in Europe.

Ancient DNA analyses suggest that prehistoric Europeans looked different from modern Europeans today, but some people find that hard to accept.

Chris Stringer, who has just received a CBE for his work on human evolution, tells how his remarkable quest as a young researcher transformed understanding of our species

The art was created long before modern humans inhabited France's Loire Valley

Prof Chris Stringer addresses this controversial question.

How the Neanderthals died out remains one of the biggest mysteries in human evolution.

Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study from Lund University in...

Sweden's Svante Paabo wins the prize for discoveries on humanity's extinct relatives.

A fragment of a hominin skull adds to the sparse collection from our obscure cousins. Has the hunt for the Denisovans just begun?

A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the "Out of Africa" dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.

Furniture conservator Ben Bacon spent hours of his own time decoding cave paintings.

Nature - Analyses of the hominin skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, place it at an earlier date than previously thought, confirming that later Middle Pleistocene Africa was home to at least three...

This week, I am delighted to introduce Professor Chris Stringer, a physical anthropologist and the research leader of Human Origins at the Natural History Museum in London. You may know Chris as on…

The city was built 2,500 years ago but may have been abandoned after a volcanic eruption.

Scientists build a 3D model of one of our evolutionary cousins from the pieces of a shattered skull.

World renowned expert on Neanderthals Prof Chris Stringer was recently awarded the William King Medal at NUI Galway for his work on human evolution.

Dr Tim Reynolds explores the nature of Neanderthal behaviour, their culture and their social practices through evidence from the site of Shanidar cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Archaeologists in Georgia have found a 1.8-million-year-old tooth belonging to an early species of human which they say cements the region as the home of one of the earliest prehistoric human...

Neanderthals: More Than Just Extinct Cousins An upcoming Netflix documentary,

A lecture by Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum to the University of Cambridge Archaeological Field Club (AFC) on "The Origin of Our Species."

A new fossil and evidence that the hominids interbred with humans as recently as 15,000 years ago only add to Denisovans’ mystery.

A new study published on October 17 in the journal PNAS, led by a CNRS researcher, has for the first time used zinc isotope analysis to determine the position of Neanderthals in the food chain. Their...

Carved from mammoth ivory, this small sculpture is thought to represent a snow leopard or lion. Discovered in the Vogelherd Cave in Germany, the sculpture has fine details such as the pointed ears...

Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals

But findings, based on a reevaluation of radiocarbon dating data, aren’t swaying some experts

The Americas were the last continent to be inhabited by humans. An increasing body of archaeological and genomic evidence has hinted to a complex settlement process. This is especially true for South...