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

For more than 1 million years, early humans in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean used a range of heavy tools, ...

A new study reveals early humans deliberately quarried stone for tools 220,000 years ago, showing advanced planning far ...

As long as 220,000 years ago—far earlier than previously thought—people quarried rocks for their tools in places they ...

Early humans were quarrying stone in southern Africa over 200,000 years ago, reveals new research. People quarried rocks for ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier ...

New research shows Stone Age humans created structured signs and symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

Clay ornaments created 15,000 years ago show that symbolic expression began before agriculture. Evidence suggests both children and adults participated, highlighting early social and cultural ...

New research shows Stone Age people in southern Africa were quarrying hornfels deliberately at the Jojosi site over 200,000 ...

Scientists reconstructed the face of a prehistoric human using a 16,000-year-old skull in southern China offering clues about early human life ...

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

A new archeological finding shows that Native Americans were exploring probability through games of chance far earlier than ...