The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity's evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence. Fire ...

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people ...

A trove of rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools unearthed in south-west China reveals that early humans in the region may have relied heavily on underground plants like roots and tubers for sustenance.

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed a 476,000-year-old wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia, offering a ...

From domestication to art, here’s a look at 14 fascinating things humans were up to 10,000 years ago. The domestication of plants and animals was revolutionizing human life. In the Levant region, ...

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...