Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

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

Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought - Find suggests ...

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Chinese scientists’ recent research suggests that early humans in Central China may have begun using hafted stone tools and ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

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

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...