Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Thousands of slate artifacts found on the Tibetan Plateau showcase the resiliency of early humans as they fanned out of ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

Scientists examining traces left behind by early humans continue to find evidence that refuses to stay neatly in place. New ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

Fire sits at the center of how people think about being human, yet its beginnings stay oddly vague. Most readers carry a hazy ...

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest known evidence of butchery of the giant herbivores ...

Study finds plant poison was used on ancient arrows, pointing to sophisticated hunting methods used 60,000 years ago ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

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 ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...