The caveman is a stock character representative of primitive humans in the Paleolithic. The popularization of the type dates to the early 20th century, when Neanderthals were influentially described as "simian" or " ape -like" by Marcellin Boule [1] and Arthur Keith. [2]

5 days ago · The team that discovered the new species of human relative deep inside a cave near Johannesburg, South Africa was lead by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Lee Berger of the University of ...

8 hours ago · Caves have opened the doors to many archaeological findings, including one that explains human behavior as far back as 18,000 years ago. However, the discovery feature of this article is even more unique. Imagine discovering the fossilized skull of a child hiding in an almost inaccessible chamber of a massive cave system for 250,000 years.

Homo naledi is an extinct species of archaic human discovered in 2013 in the Rising Star Cave system, Gauteng province, South Africa, part of the Cradle of Humankind, dating to the Middle Pleistocene 335,000–236,000 years ago.

Mar 27, 2025 · The clustering of human burials at Tinshemet Cave raises intriguing questions about its role in MP society. Could the site have functioned as a dedicated burial ground or even a cemetery? If so, this would suggest the presence of shared rituals and strong communal bonds. The placement of significant artifacts—such as stone tools, animal bones ...

Mar 12, 2025 · Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that lived more than 1.1 million years ago, according to new...

Mar 13, 2025 · The fragments are from the left side of the mid-face of an adult human. In 2008, a human jawbone more than 1.1 million years old had been found at the same site. The new fragments were found ...

Feb 28, 2025 · Archaeologists explore this cave in Russia’s Altai Mountains, which was occupied by several human species over a period of 200,000 years. Among its many occupants were the Denisovans, who lived ...

Since about 750,000 years ago, the Zhoukoudian cave system, in Beijing, China, has been inhabited by various species of human being, including Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) and modern humans (Homo sapiens).

Aug 5, 2024 · A little over a year ago, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team made an extraordinary claim about a diminutive hominin, Homo naledi, whose fossils his team discovered a decade ago in the dark and twisting narrows of South Africa’s Rising Star Cave system.