Chinese scientists’ recent research suggests that early humans in Central China may have begun using hafted stone tools and ...

The latest discoveries in Central China's Henan province are filling critical gaps in understanding East Asia's role in human ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New evidence suggests the first Americans arrived by sea from Asia more than 20,000 years ago. (CREDIT: AI-generated / The ...

Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.

A multidisciplinary team led by Chinese scientists recently made a significant archaeological discovery at the Gantangjing Paleolithic site in Yunnan province, southwestern China, unearthing 35 ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...

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

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