Skulls

Remains from Israel’s North show Neanderthal children grew faster than modern humans - study

According to the study, Amud 7’s remains date to approximately 51,000 and 56,000 years ago and belong to the most complete skeleton of a Neanderthal infant ever found.

 World's oldest Neanderthal fingerprint found on 43,000-year-old pebble in Spain. Illustration.
The face of "Little Foot".

Scientists reconstruct the face of “Little Foot,” a 4-million-year-old human ancestor

Cambridge University archaeologists and students discover 9th century CE mass burial pit during a training dig at Wandlebury Country Park on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK, February 4, 2026.

Cambridge students find burial pit, 9th century ‘giant’ who underwent surgery during training dig

Archaeologists Ines Morales, Rocio Moron and Veronica Alberto from Tibicena, an archaeology company, analyze a human skull which was found buried in a cave on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain April 24, 2023.

Ancient Spanish skull reveals Roman campaign of intimidation, adds to sparse record of ancient war


Study of 50,000-year canine skulls shows dogs diversified millennia before modern breeding

Researches links early Holocene dog lineages to human migrations across Eurasia as far back as 11,000 years ago.

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Rare Celtic skull trepanation tool found in Poland

"This type of tool is known only from a few Celtic sites in southern and central Europe—Romania, Croatia and Austria," said Bartłomiej Kaczyński, hinting a healer was among the settlers.

Anonymous archaeologist excavating human skull and necklace. Illustration.

Vienna Cathedral shocked to discover stolen skull in their mail

The skull had been mailed from a guilt-laden former visitor from northern Germany.

The reconstructed skull of a man who died 12,000 years ago in what is now Vietnam.

Ancient human skull dating to 2,300 BCE discovered on Indiana's Whitewater River bank

“This discovery is a powerful and humbling reminder that people have walked this land for millennia,” said Fayette County Coroner Eddie Richardson.

Over 4,000-year-old skull.

Chinese one-million-year-old Yunxian 2 skull challenges Homo sapiens timeline

Re-dated to between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old and reassigned to Homo longi, the specimen could shift the appearance of large-brained humans back at least 500,000 years.

Chinese one-million-year-old Yunxian 2 skull challenges Homo sapiens timeline.

Scientists reconstruct face of 900-year-old woman from churchyard skull

Visitors to Holy Trinity Parish Church are invited to pick a name for the medieval woman from a ten-strong shortlist.

Scientists reconstruct face of 900-year-old woman from churchyard skull.

Three new 7.7-million-year-old elephant skulls unearthed in Turkey

“This year we can talk about the year of the elephant. From 2018 until now, we had identified two skulls, but only this year did we find three” described an archeologist.

Illustration: The skull of an asian elephant.

Ancient human skull discovered in Greece rewrites human evolutionary timeline

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era.

The reconstructed skull of a man who died 12,000 years ago in what is now Vietnam.

Skulls for sale: inside the shocking legal void fueling Britain’s black market in human remains

Instagram sellers. Grave robbers. Gothic collectors. And a law that says almost nothing.

Illustration: Mummified Skulls From Grave Robbed Cemetery, Peru.

Oldest human hybrid? 140,000-year-old skull could rewrite human evolution

Is this ancient child proof that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals mixed far earlier than we thought?

Prof. Israel Hershkovitz.