New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Researchers have long considered these cave systems valuable archaeological archives. The latest discovery is part of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning “large head people”—they’ve recently been introduced to science under the ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

Humans were moving between Siberia and northern China far earlier than thought, according to a new study that offers a detailed new picture of East Asia’s population history. Northern East Asia, which ...

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 ...

Ancient archaeological sites across multiple continents are deteriorating at accelerating rates as rising seas, intensifying ...

An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen ...