Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning ...

The axes were dated to the Pleistocene, likely made by Homo erectus, the first human species to evolve to have a humanlike ...

Scientists reconstructed the face of a prehistoric human using a 16,000-year-old skull in southern China offering clues about early human life ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Archaeologists have identified what appears to be the earliest clear evidence that ancient humans were not just tending flames but deliberately making fire, pushing a pivotal technological ...

Early humans may have created fire 400,000 years ago, according to evidence unearthed at an archaeological site in England. Although there is evidence that early humans used natural fire in Africa as ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Early humans in Ethiopia survived the Toba supervolcano eruption by shifting to river foods, revealing how drought shaped ...