AN ANCIENT burial used for a grizzly sacrifice ritual has been uncovered with around 80 skulls. Experts were left gob-smacked ...

Neolithic people collected and deposited skull bones in the center of a village as part of a ritual tradition more than 7,000 ...

HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

The discovery of a peculiarly shaped skull by archaeologists has illuminated a previously unknown ritual deformation process.

Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago. Reading time 3 minutes In 1960, a villager found something ...

Oct. 9 -- A skull with a prominent brow and small face is at the center of an ugly spat between anthropologists who disagree over whether it belonged to a gorilla or human ancestor. If Michel Brunet ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A young woman with a modified skull was buried among others in a prehistoric cemetery in Iran. | ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...

BEIJING (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) — The "Dragon Man" skull may help unravel an evolutionary mystery, according to researchers. A fossilized skull, unearthed from the depths of a well in China's Black ...

WASHINGTON -- The first people to cross a land bridge from Asia and settle in the Americas may have been descendants of an ancient group who once lived in Japan, according to a new study. Researchers ...