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

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

On a Norfolk shoreline, fragile human footprints briefly appeared before the sea erased them. Archaeologists captured the ...

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

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

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 ...

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

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

For a long time, the Neanderthals were regarded as functional, survival-minded humans who possessed the capabilities of ...

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 ...