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

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

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

At the Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh in Ukraine, archaeologists identified ivory fragments shaped into tools nearly 400,000 ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals that early humans, possibly Neanderthals, were using tools to create fire more than ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.