A mysterious skull, discovered in a Greek cave decades ago, has been identified as belonging to Homo heidelbergensis, an extinct human ancestor. Recent dating techniques place the skull at ...

Stone tools discovered decades ago in a Polish cave have been reexamined using modern methods, revealing an age far older ...

Analysis of the fossils indicates the male Homo heidelbergensis was over age 45 and suffered from a spinal deformity that would have caused him a lot of pain and forced him to stoop over. It's not ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony represent the oldest known footprints in Germany. The 300,000-year-old site ...

The "Pit of Bones," or Sima de los Huesos in Spanish, is a landmark archaeological site in the Atapuerca Mountains, just outside Ibeas de Juarros in Burgos Province, Spain. Unveiling crucial insights ...

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Potential human ancestor Homo heidelbergensis used this 480,000-year-old bone hammer to create flint tools. UCL Institute of Archaeology Some 480,000 years ago, a group of 30 to 40 early hominins met ...

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