A new DNA analysis has shown that the arrival of modern humans from Africa was far from smooth.

The oldest example of cave art has been discovered on an Indonesian island and dated back 51,200 years.

Scientists build a 3D model of one of our evolutionary cousins from the pieces of a shattered skull.

Palaeoanthropologist Emma Pomeroy describes the main features of the Shanidar Z Neanderthal skull.

Ancient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago.

Severe cold a million years ago forced our ancestors from the continent, but they adapted and returned.

Other branches of early humans, not just ancestors of Homo Sapiens, used them to cut and crush food.

New research complicates our current understanding of where humans came from.