Joseph Shavit Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after ...

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...

Early humans were quarrying stone as far back as 220,000 years ago, revealing surprisingly advanced planning and resource use.

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 ...

Early humans crossed Philippine seas 40,000 years ago, building coastal networks, fishing offshore, and developing maritime ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of human presence dating ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...