Researchers in Australia think the painting - which has been discovered in South East Asia - could tell us more about how ...

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

Scientists believe that recent analysis of a find from the 1970's can offer us insights into the lives of ancient humans.

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

Some practices and skills known by early humans have been lost to time. Sometimes this is because of changing environments or ...

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

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools.

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

Scientists Discovered Evidence of Fire-Making by Early Humans Nearly 400,000 Years Ago ...

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

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...