New observations and excavations in South African caves have found that Homo naledi, an early human ancestor, intentionally buried their dead and made crosshatch engravings in the cave walls nearby.

Anthropologist Lee Berger and his team at the University of the Witwatersrand, working within the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, have published their most extensive evidence yet of ...

The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist John Olsen. By Franz Lidz Franz Lidz has had two root canals and was ...

Archaeologists have discovered what they consider to be one of the world's oldest human burial sites. The site, located inside Tinshemet Cave in central Israel, dates back around 100,000 years and ...