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

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

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

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

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

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

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 ...

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

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

A groundbreaking international study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity s longest known prehistoric migration walking more than 20,000 kilometers over thousands of years from North Asia ...

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