Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

COMMENTARY: Amid rapid advances in artificial intelligence, the Vatican’s 2025 note ‘Antiqua et Nova’ draws a clear ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Featuring ancient ruins spanning from the Paleolithic Age to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), six sites were revealed by the ...

According to researchers, Dawn’s bones indicated she was 15 years old when she died, but an examination of the teeth ...

These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a glimpse at the technical know-how of our early ...

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...