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

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.

At the Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh in Ukraine, archaeologists identified ivory fragments shaped into tools nearly 400,000 ...

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

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

New analysis of child remains unearthed in an Italian cave reveal that they belong to the earliest-known Homo sapiens female infant burial in Europe—a discovery that helps resolve questions about the ...

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

An international team of scientists has found compelling evidence that a changing climate played a role in the extinction of the early human species Homo floresiensis, also known as ‘hobbits’. Their ...

In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...

“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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest-known evidence of deliberately lit campfires at a site in the UK dated to be 400,000 years old.