Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

Earlier migrations relied on “green corridors”—temporary windows of perfect weather that allowed people to move through ...

Team redates prehistoric ‘Ubeidiya in Jordan Valley to same age as oldest Georgian site, suggesting at least two distinct ...

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previous studies indicated, rewriting our understanding of early human ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Those items, of course, can also help paint a picture of early man. Along with the jawbone, the team also found a mix of animal fossils, including ...

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 ...

The Heritage Commission Wednesday announced the most recent archaeological discoveries made in the north of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, revealing evidence of early human migrations from Africa to ...

Learn how a combination of archaeology and anthropology helped reveal hidden insights into the diet and culture of ...

Archaeologists working at the Orozmani site in Georgia said they found a 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone. The jawbone, found alongside stone tools and animal fossils, is one of the oldest human ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...