A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

Along Turkey’s northwestern shoreline, where the Aegean Sea meets the olive-covered ridges of Anatolia, lies a quiet district ...

“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...

Are these some of the earliest weapons in human history? History Hit’s Tristan Hughes speaks to Dr Annemieke Milks, ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became. Scientists studying ancient teeth found that early humans, great apes, and even ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

The authors of a study of the specimen conclude the elephant was butchered using small stones, as indicated by both the ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

Amid the quiet wilderness of Sarawak’s tropical rainforest, the Niah Caves rise majestically – the largest and oldest ...