A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

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

The controlled use of fire was a landmark event for the human evolutionary lineage, not only for cooking and providing ...

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

The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity's evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence.

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

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. 300,000-year old Homo sapiens genetic ...

A 400,000-year-old hearth in an English clay pit suggests our distant cousins were making and tending fire far earlier than ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...