We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social behavior.

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

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

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...