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Entrance to Skhul Cave, Israel. Here and at the neighbouring site of Qafzeh, Homo sapiens burials have been dated to between around 90,000 and 130,000 years ago.

Palaeoanthropological site of Trinil, Java, Indonesia, where Eugène Dubois first discovered Pithecanthropus (now Homo) erectus in the 1890s.

The Olduvai Gorge monument in Tanzania consists of large-scale sculpted models of Paranthropus boisei and Homo habilis resting on a stone platform. The monument welcomes visitors as they reach the road leading to the gorge and its museum...

Cast of a horse figurine carved out of mammoth ivory belonging to the Magdalenian industry of the Upper Paleolithic, which is associated with early modern humans (Homo sapiens) in southwestern France between c. 17,000 and c. 11,000 years...

Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in Siberia, Russia. It is well known for human occupation stretching back as far as 280,000 years ago and shows signs of occupation by Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and Denisovans. All currently known Denisovan...

These two handaxes were made from flint by Homo erectus around 130,000 BCE. They were both found in Switzerland: The ochre one was found in Pratteln, Canton Basel-Land, while the white one was found in Schlieren, Canton Zurich. On display...

Cast of the skull of a scimitar-toothed cat (genus Homotherium) which appeared across Africa, Eurasia and the Americas during the Pliocene (c. 5 million - c. 2,6 million years ago) and the Pleistocene (c. 2,6 million- c. 12,000 years ago...

Cast of an engraving of a woolly mammoth on mammoth ivory made by early modern humans (Homo sapiens) at the rock shelter of La Madeleine, France, between c. 17,000- c. 11,000 years ago. It resides at the Collection de Paleontologie du Museum...

Upper Cave is one of the caves at the cave system at Zhoukoudian, China. The site as a whole has yielded an impressive range of archaeological discoveries, among which is one of the first specimens of Homo erectus.

Stone spear points belonging to the Clovis industry which is associated with early modern humans (Homo sapiens) in North America between roughly 13,500-13,000 years ago. The so-called 'Clovis point' has a distinctively fluted shape (the thin...