Researchers believe the location served as a hunter-gatherer camp frequented by homo heidelbergensis, an early human ancestor ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

From the sound of traffic to spending too much time on your smartphone, there are plenty of things in the modern world that can give you a headache. But scientists now say that some people's pounding ...

About 400,000 years ago, someone struck a piece of pyrite against a stone and started fire. It was a huge leap from just ...

يوجد هذا الموقع المتسلسل في وادي الأواش الأعلى بإثيوبيا، وهو عبارة عن مجموعة من مواقع ما قبل التاريخ التي تحافظ على سجلات أثرية وأحفورية ...

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A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Rarely has a single find changed scholars’ views of the capabilities of people of the past as radically as the discovery of the world’s earliest known wooden architecture, which dates to nearly half a ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...