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

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

A recent study sheds new light on the ecological adaptability of early humans at the time when they first expanded their range outside Africa, 2--1 million years ago. A recent study by University of ...

Imagine walking miles and miles across dangerous terrain frequented by sabertoothed cats just to find the right rock. Around 2.6 million years ago, a group of early hominins in East Africa started to ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

The evidence shows that early hominins returned to the same area again and again between 2.75 and 2.44 million years ago. (CREDIT: Wix) Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing ...

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

Imagine a world where colossal creatures roamed the land, coexisting with early humans. This was the reality in the Americas, where giant sloths and mastodons thrived alongside our ancestors for ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University ...

Around 400,000 years ago, early humans hunted beavers as a food resource and possibly also for their pelts.The authors show that Middle Pleistocene humans systematically fed on these smaller animals ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...