Archaeologists have spent years wondering why the earliest human homes tend to be found in rough terrain, mountain valleys, ...

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

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

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

Researchers say tools from the Xigou site reveal unexpected innovation, including early composite implements dating back up ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...