Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering to farming – but was beer really more important to us than bread?

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, drowning vast portions of Australia’s ancient landscape. Recent underwater ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...