Ian Towle & Luca Fiorenza/The Conversation For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or ...

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China may push back the origins of our species by half a million years, challenging long-held beliefs about when—and with whom—early humans roamed the Earth, reports the ...

Origins" is airing the premiere of its second season on Monday, Oct. 6 at 9 p.m. There are several ways to watch with a free ...

An aerial view of the Longgupo site in Wushan, Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality Photo: VCG. Wearing a dim headlamp, and often getting covered in mud while working in cramp ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Researchers have conducted the most thorough geoarchaeological survey of Karnak temple and found habitation was impossible ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance.

Archaeologists have learned about the lives of the world’s earliest farmers, how they traveled, and socialized in Neolithic ...

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we ...

A new study uncovered how Egypt’s Karnak Temple rose from Nile floods, revealing its origins, age, and mythic connection to ...