In a discovery reshaping the understanding of prehistoric cultures in Eurasia, archaeologists found an 8,400-year-old stone ...

ANCIENT rock carvings etched over 200,000 years ago could be the oldest ever uncovered, archaeologists believe. The exciting discovery inside a Spanish cave could rewrite human history and shed ...

In a find that provides insights into the remarkable abilities of these ancient humans, new research studying the chemical ...

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective ...

The spheres, made from volcanic basalt and lapilli, were discovered across eight archaeological sites in Melka Kunture, dated ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

Scientists have been debating the start of the Anthropocene Epoch for 15 years. I was part of those discussions, and I agree ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial ground in England, is older than Stonehenge, a new radiocarbon-dating study finds.