A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

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

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

Team says discovery of 2,600 stone tools, including hafted tools, reshapes understanding of human evolution in eastern Asia ...

Hominins — the group that includes humans and our extinct relatives — may have been capable of competing with giant hyenas for carcasses abandoned by sabre-toothed cats and jaguars during the ...

Oldowan tools are some of the oldest known in the archaeological record; made of conveniently shaped rocks or crafted from knapped stones, these tools made it possible for hominin species to survive ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. One of the most enduring mysteries about our earliest ancestors ...

773,000-year-old fossils from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco illuminate the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans The results presented here stem from over three decades of ...