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 ...

Deep in the Rising Star Cave system lies a mystery of paleoanthropology. Deep in the Rising Star Cave system lies a mystery of paleoanthropology: a chamber filled with the bones of Homo naledi. How ...

One of the biggest controversies in human evolution just took another dramatic turn after researchers submitted their final, revised version of a study claiming that a small-brained human ancestor ...

BELOIT — The discovery by a young man of a portion of a jaw in a cave in South Africa sent John Hawks on a journey toward the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. Twelve years after that ...

There is one archaeological site that has much in common with Rising Star: Sima de los Huesos (the “pit of bones”) in northern Spain. There, researchers have uncovered the remains of 29 hominins, ...