In 2025, researchers used protein analysis to show that a jawbone recovered from ocean sediments off the coast of Taiwan belonged to a Denisovan.Credit: Yousuke Kaifu An abandoned quarry in southwestern China has given scientists a portal into the Stone Age. The site’s trove of fossils and artefacts provides an unprecedented glimpse into the lives
Prehistoric cave paintings in a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia.Credit: Mangiwau/Getty Photography Last September, a train left Surakarta, in central Java, Indonesia. On board was Eduard Pop, a paleoanthropologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, and a specialist in homo erectus – a hominid, closely related to our own species, that emerged almost
