The latest discoveries by an international research team, which includes Academy Research Fellow Ferhat Kaya from the ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

A beach walk in Norfolk led to the discovery of a 780,000-year-old hand axe, rewriting early human history and settlement ...

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 ...

A routine dog walk on Norfolk's Happisburgh beach in 2000 unearthed a remarkable handaxe, pushing back the timeline of early ...

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 ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

When imagining our early human ancestors in prehistoric Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, one might envision ...

Tiny crystals hidden inside an ancient bone forced scientists to redraw the timeline of a famous Homo juluensis tool site.