Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

Technology allowed early hominins to navigate instability and led to a life populated by loss and uncertainty. Rivers were important for the above context. Braided channels that moved cobbles into the ...

Turkish researchers are retracing Ice Age-era human activity in south-central Türkiye by walking about 25 kilometers a day as ...

Mathematical thinking's legacy may be older than we believed, as published in the Journal of World Prehistory. In this study, researchers focused on some of the earliest botanical paintings created by ...

Turkish researchers are tracing Ice Age-era human presence in south-central Türkiye, walking roughly 25 kilometers each day ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and manage fire about 400,000 years ago. The findings, published in Nature, ...