The art is believed to be over 67,000 years old ...

Early humans and their ancestors did not always stand at the top of the food chain. Fossil evidence and environmental clues ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

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