Stone tools discovered on Crete and other Greek islands suggest that ancient humans deliberately crossed open seas more than ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Stone tools discovered decades ago in a Polish cave have been reexamined using modern methods, revealing an age far older than previously believed. Dated to between 450,000 and 550,000 years ago, the ...

A major archaeological discovery in Suffolk shows that early Neanderthals were making fire about 400,000 years ago, pushing ...

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

The site where the earliest known human-made fire was discovered was the "perfect location" for early humans, a researcher ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Scientists discovered a new human species, Homo juluensis, in the Xujiayao site in China that lived 200,000 years ago.

The Pahon Cave in Gabon offers archaeologists a well-preserved look into the Late Stone Age time period in central Africa, ...

Known as "tulas," the 60 artifacts are only the second discovery of this size to be found in Australia. Researchers think ...