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Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Archaeologists found 120,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

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

Learn how archaeologists are using ancient charcoal deposits to understand what life was like for ancient humans 800,000 ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, suggesting that they were not just passive settlers but active fossil hunters.