"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Maba 1 also suffered trauma before death, but the specific cause of the trauma remains unknown.

The skull was discovered in the River Po near Cremona in northern Italy, as water levels dwindle because of drought. The fragments of the "archaic" human skull consist of two parietal bones and ...

Human skulls. Educational Notes ... When an infant is born, the major bones in the skull (the occipital bone, two frontal bones, and two parietal bones) are held together by cranial sutures, a type of ...

Photo: Courtesy of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. Among scattered mammal fossils, a piece of human parietal or more commonly known as the skull bone was discovered ...

China successfully identified a fragment of a skull that belongs to an ancient human being who lived about 200,000 years ago, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences said, adding that the ...

The parietal bone was kept in a temple that was destroyed about 1,400 years ago during a series of wars, Deming wrote. "The foundation ruins … were scattered in the weeds," Deming wrote.

The skull is the topmost section of the human skeleton. It is on top of the spinal column and makes up the underlying structure of the head. It connects to the bones of the spine at the neck.