Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

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

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...

Long before modern North America existed, a massive and powerful bear dominated the land. Early humans were forced to compete ...

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

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

A new study challenges the idea that climate change drove early human innovation. Instead, researchers find that cultural developments arose under different environmental conditions, shaped by ...

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...

The unearthing of finely worked mammoth ivory tools in Alaska has pushed archaeologists to rethink when and how humans first spread into North America. The artifacts, linked to the iconic Clovis ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

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