Nearly half a million years ago, ancient humans at Kalambo Falls in Zambia shaped and fitted together large pieces of wood to ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

A small mark on an ancient jaw has opened a window into a moment of violence from a time far removed from written history.

Understanding how early Homo sapiens ventured into Eurasia offers key insights into human evolution, the extinction of Neanderthals, and the rise of modern humans. Recent discoveries reveal that ...

An international team of researchers from the Universities of Tübingen (Dr. Armando Falcucci), Siena, and Bologna analyzed the cultural remains left by groups of early Homo sapiens at Grotta di ...

(Reuters) - Bone fragments unearthed in a cave in central Germany show that our species ventured into Europe's cold higher latitudes more than 45,000 years ago - much earlier than previously known - ...

Extraordinary new discoveries are suggesting, for the very first time, that archaic (non-Homo-sapiens) early human society ...

A microscopic analysis of the skull of Qafzeh 25 revealed a cut mark likely made by a stone tool 100,000 years ago.

Archaeological surveys led by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis suggest that coastal and underwater cave sites in southern Sicily contain important new clues about the path and fate of ...

Scientists have unraveled the ancestral history of one of the most iconic birds of prey in the current Iberian fauna: the Bonelli's eagle (Aquila fasciata). The study combines evidence from several ...