The story of human evolution has never been a straight line. Every decade — sometimes every few years — a fossil pulled from ancient rock, a genetic sequence decoded from a fragment of bone, or a set ...

We tend to think of ancient, Ice Age hunter-gatherers as being entirely focused on grim, day-to-day survival. The standard ...

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they returned again and again, hunting large animals, cooking fish over controlled ...

Learn more about the discovery of ancient tools that indicate early humans used them to dig up and harvest vegetables for their diets. We almost always associate the ancient human diet with one of ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient humans didn't spend as much time on survival activities as we might think. But the reality is that jobs as we know ...

Advanced 3D analysis of Stone Age artifacts has revealed that our ancient ancestors were creating intentional geometric designs as early as 100,000 years ago, challenging previous assumptions about ...

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Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone ...

A famous cache of wooden spear shafts and other hunting tools was once ascribed to a group of early humans that were not known for social organization. Ancient snail shells helped archeologists ...

Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ancestors lived and survived. Habitat shapes everything, from what food was ...