Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Forget the long-standing stereotype of Neanderthals as lone wanderers or Early Humans as hostile outsiders. A groundbreaking new study has revealed a surprising chapter in human history, suggesting ...

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

This combination of 2007, 2018 and 2012 photos shows, from left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

A skull, unearthed nearly a century ago, has led to new revelations in the study of human evolution. Known as “Dragon Man,” the fossil has now been identified as belonging to the Denisovans — a ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

WASHINGTON — Old Stone Age humans were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people make tools; ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...

Study: Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record As early humans spread from lush ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest-known evidence of deliberately lit campfires at a site in the UK dated to be ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age. According to a new ...