This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

FOND DU LAC COUNTY, Wis. — A 24-year-old Lomira man was found dead following an apparent hunting accident Saturday, according to the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities said they found ...

Long before romance, ceremonies, or social media narratives, Neanderthal relationships were shaped almost entirely by environmental pressure and survival necessity. Archaeological evidence suggests ...

Along the southwestern coast of Portugal, fossilized footprints preserved in ancient dunes provide a rare glimpse into ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

A team of scientists led by the British Museum have unearthed the earliest known evidence of fire making, dating back over 400,000 years, in a field in Suffolk.

Sites in Africa suggest humans used natural fire over a million years ago, but the discovery at the Palaeolithic site in Barnham evidences the creation and control of fire, which carries huge ...

The Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary human cousins and for hundreds of thousands of years were much more successful at colonizing Europe than we were. Recent archaeological evidence shows ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) — A Waco man was arrested Sunday after a game camera captured him hunting without permission on Baylor University property, according to an affidavit. Texas Game Warden Michael ...

LAFOURCHE PARISH, La. — Louisiana wildlife agents are investigating a deadly hunting accident in Lafourche Parish after a Raceland man was fatally shot in the head last weekend. Officials say ...

A Raceland man was killed in a hunting accident Nov. 29, Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Garret Verdun, 45, died when a rifle accidently discharged and struck him in the head ...