Early humans were quarrying stone as far back as 220,000 years ago, revealing surprisingly advanced planning and resource use.

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

Based on this, researchers suggest that early homo sapiens planned for the long-term acquisition of resources earlier than ...

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

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

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

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

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

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...