The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

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

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

New research has revealed that the early humans quarried metamorphic rock as far back as 220,000 years ago. A revolutionary ...

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

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the ...