Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just ...

Technology allowed early hominins to navigate instability and led to a life populated by loss and uncertainty. Rivers were important for the above context. Braided channels that moved cobbles into the ...

The BBC has released new images showcasing early human species as part of its upcoming science series, Human. This release is significant for both scientists and the public, providing historically ...

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

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 ...