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Humanity was already weaving social networks spanning thousands of square kilometers 25,000 years ago, in the midst of the glacial cold.

Sílvia Marimon

21-01-2026

Reconstruction of a lithic raw material exchange somewhere between central Iberia and southwestern France 25,000 years ago. Illustration created with ChatGPT (OpenAI), following instructions from the authors and based on research findings.

The reconstruction of a skeleton reveals the anatomy of 'Homo habilis'

ARA

13-01-2026

Photograph of co-authors Bill Jungers and Meave Leakey examining the remains of KNM-ER 64061 at the Turkana Basin Institute in 2014.

The first whalers were not from the north, but from Brazil

Sílvia Marimon

09-01-2026

A reenactment of whaling in Brazil

Fossils found in Morocco that could belong to a close ancestor of 'Homo sapiens'

ARA

07-01-2026

Remains of a jawbone dating back 773,000 years found in Morocco.

This is how the last Neanderthals lived on the Iberian Peninsula

Sílvia Marimon

19-12-2025

The analysis of the remains of campfires at the Salt site

Hominids lit fires much earlier than previously thought

Sílvia Marimon

10-12-2025

A reproduction of a hominid lighting up about 400,000 years ago.

Fossils found in Kenya provide new details about what the hands of ancient hominids were like.

ARA

16-10-2025

On the left, researchers Carrie Mongle and Meave Leakey. On the right, a reconstruction of the hand of Paranthropus boisei found in Kenya.