New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

In a series of recent archaeological expeditions, tools dating back millions of years have been unearthed, offering a new ...

The arid deserts of north Arabian Arabia do not seem to be the kind of climate early humans would have loved, but new finds ...

New tool discoveries show that early humans crossed a major deep-sea barrier to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi much earlier than previously thought. Researchers from Griffith University and ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

A new find in the Ayvalık region of western Turkey suggests that prehistoric humans somehow "walked" across what is now a ...

Fossil bite mark analysis with AI shows early humans were prey for leopards, reshaping what we know about human evolution.

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...