The findings, based on the analysis of human fossils in a Moroccan cave dating back nearly 800,000 years possibly shift the focus from Europe back to the African continent. The fossils, mainly ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered 430,000-year-old handheld wooden tools, the oldest surviving examples of their kind ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dating back 430,000 years, at the Marathousa 1 site in ...

Archaeologists uncovered 70,000-year-old handle implements in China, reshaping views of early human technology and innovation in East Asia.

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The world’s oldest known cave art shows how early humans crossed oceans, offering rare insight into ancient migration routes.

Ancient tools from China show early humans made complex, hafted technologies 160,000 years ago, reshaping views of innovation ...

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

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

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

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago.

Discoveries at a controversial southeastern archaeological site could potentially push back the timelines for human arrival ...