Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

Historic Rangeley is highlighting the Vail Site exhibit, which documents the earliest known human presence in western Maine ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

A tiny bird figurine discovered in a refuse heap in the Henan province of China is changing what historians thought they knew ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.

Hidden away in an obscure notice in a federal register is a throwaway line that could rewrite human history. It states that San José State University holds human remains of an Ice Age individual from ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and manage fire about 400,000 years ago. The findings, published in Nature, ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

In the heart of northern Zambia, a groundbreaking archaeological discovery at Kalambo Falls is reshaping our understanding of early human ingenuity. Researchers have unearthed wooden logs dating back ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity on a humble field in Barnham in the U.K. county of Suffolk. According to Chris Stringer of ...