It is considered by many researchers to belong to a species called Homo heidelbergensis - a common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals. But scientists who have dated small samples of bone ...

They say the first storyteller lived between 200,000 and 700,000 years ago among the species of human known as homo ...

H. sapiens emerged around 300,000 years ago, evolving from Homo heidelbergensis and migrating out of Africa, gradually replacing local populations of archaic humans. For most of history, all humans ...

human ancestors called Homo heidelbergensis were creating tools from horse bones. Fast forward to about 30,000 years ago, and humans across Europe and northern Eurasia were regularly painting horses ...

Homo erectus was probably the first hominid to use fire. Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human.

Our ancestor Homo erectus lived in Africa, Europe, and Asia. Its descendant, Homo heidelbergensis, gave rise to at least ...

In 1911, an extraordinary archaeological discovery was made in the small coastal town of Clacton-on-Sea (Essex, England). Samuel Hazzledine Warren, an amateur prehistorian who had been searching for ...

Previously, those fossils - mostly discovered between 1908 and the late 1970s in Europe, Africa, and Asia - were all considered part of the same ancestor group, called Homo heidelbergensis.