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

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

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 ...

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans, gorillas and chimpanzees. This hypothesis has since been refuted. Early ...

A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shows early humans had an ability to systematically make tools about a million years earlier than scientists thought.

A new book highlights the beautiful work of Jay Matternes, an accomplished artist who drew everything from mammoths to early humans ...

The fire-making technology marks a pivotal step in our human evolution ... Though they’d already collected valuable evidence of an early society that thrived in the area, the fire-making ...

As the evidence of early humans living in Asian rainforests emerged, she began investigating the possibility the same phenomenon had occurred in West Africa. Finding evidence of the theory ...

Artifacts encased in several layers of sediment hinted that some early humans had settled and thrived there, during a time when it was thought that they evolved primarily on savannas. Almost nobody ...

If this Africa-wide theory were true, then early humans must have figured out how to live in many environments beyond grasslands. A study published Wednesday shows that as early as 150,000 years ...

After reinvestigating a site in modern-day Côte d’Ivoire, an international team of researchers claims that humans (Homo sapiens) began living in rainforests as early as 150,000 years ago—tens ...

Humans were living in a tropical rainforest in West Africa 150,000 years ago. The finding pushes human habitation of tropical forests much further back in time, suggesting our ancestors were able ...