Archaeologists have spent years wondering why the earliest human homes tend to be found in rough terrain, mountain valleys, ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

Unlocking a 30,000-year-old mystery, scientists now believe they know how early humans successfully navigated the seas to migrate to Japanese islands. In 2019, a team of researchers in Japan ...

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

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

Researchers say tools from the Xigou site reveal unexpected innovation, including early composite implements dating back up ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

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

Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...

Over millions of years, humans and their ancestors evolved alongside a host of terrifying predators—some so formidable, their bones still tell tales of ancient death matches. While today we view ...