Researchers discovered 68,000-year-old cave art in Indonesia, the oldest-known evidence of Homo sapiens in the area. The ...

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

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

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 ...

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 ...

Journey across tens of thousands of years in Deep Time Journeys: A Cross-Continental Look at Early Human Archaeology, a webinar that uncovers the sweeping story of our earliest ancestors. Led by ...

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

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

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 ...