Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Recent archaeological findings have unveiled a remarkable aspect of Neanderthal life, shedding new light on their ...

I made a polished stone celt axe using only primitive tools. Grinding and shaping the stone carefully produced a sharp, ...

I built this bed shed on a mountain ridge using completely primitive tools and materials. Playlist: Build A Stone House Other ...

When pieces of a community or society collapse, humans need places to gather. Research from a 5,000-year-old ceremonial site in Jordan shows ancient people faced this challenge too. Archaeological ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his discovery of a nearly complete Australopithecus boisei skull (now Paranthropus ...