Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that could reshape our understanding of ancient human technology, archaeologists have unearthed a wooden structure dating back ...

In the depths of northern Zambia, a significant archaeological discovery has emerged from beneath Kalambo Falls, altering our understanding of early human ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...

Humans were isolated in southern Africa for about 100,000 years, which caused them to "fall outside the range of genetic variation" seen in modern-day people, a new genetic study reveals. The finding ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest-known evidence of deliberately lit campfires at a site in the UK dated to be ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...