Scientists Identify 60,000-Year-Old Discovery That Rewrites Early Human History ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives and their diets.

While few of us today know how to start a bonfire without matches or a lighter, learning to make fire was one of the most critical developments in human history. New evidence suggests humans figured ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever ...

Hyderabad: Telangana's prehistoric heritage is slipping into neglect, with invaluable evidence of early human history across ...

Far below the waves off the coast of Brittany, France, divers have mapped a massive stone barrier that should not exist, at least not according to the standard story of early European prehistory.

Millennia ago, when ancient people did not know what toothbrushes were, food particles and microbes clung stubbornly to their teeth. These plaques mineralized over time to form crusty, hard tartar.

Introduction -- A fragile start -- The rise of farming -- The rise and fall of civilizations -- Climate and civilizations of the Middle Ages -- The Little Ice Age -- Humans take over -- The future is ...