An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and ...

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

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...

Evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, probably during overlapping periods, has been found during a deep excavat.

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

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Deep cave layers on Sulawesi preserve tools, bones, and art that may show modern humans overlapping with earlier hominins.

The discovery was made in southern Greece, where two objects - thought to be around 430,000 years old - were found.

Researchers have found two wooden tools crafted and used by humans at a site some 430,000 years ago. One tool is made of ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? This is the question posed by ...

Photograph by N. Thompson, copyright K. Harvati. Small wooden tool which is a new wood tool type used by humans, documented ...