Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Researchers discovered 68,000-year-old cave art in Indonesia, the oldest-known evidence of Homo sapiens in the area. The ...

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

The art is believed to be over 67,000 years old ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

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A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.