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

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

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

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

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

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

Researchers in Australia think the painting - which has been discovered in South East Asia - could tell us more about how ...

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 ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ancestors hunted, cooled themselves and survived.

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

Early humans were not the feared masters of the savanna long imagined. On the contrary, some still served as meals for big cats, according to a recent study. A discovery made possible by artificial ...