Have you ever wondered how we got here on Earth, and how it all began? From the Archean Eon to the Holocene Epoch, some ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

Black History Month arrives every year with familiar rituals, yet it hits differently once you start planning trips around it ...

Archaeologists uncovered 70,000-year-old handle implements in China, reshaping views of early human technology and innovation in East Asia.

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...

The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia’s Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Suffolk, England, has pushed back the timeline for human-made fire by an astonishing 350,000 years. Researchers excavating at Barnham have uncovered ...

While few of us today know how to start a bonfire without matches or a lighter, learning to make fire was one of the most critical developments in human history. New evidence suggests humans figured ...

Humans reached, settled, and thrived on Mindoro and other Philippine islands far earlier than most scientific timelines for allow for the evolution of human civilization. These people did not wait for ...