Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the ...

The earliest known wooden construction in the world was found at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia. This amazing structure has been dated by the archaeologists to about 476,000 years ago, and is ...

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed a 476,000-year-old wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia, revealing that early ...

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 — a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago — ...

A remarkable discovery of 476,000-year-old wooden logs at Kalambo Falls reveals that early humans were reshaping their ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

The reconstruction was produced by an international research team led by Dr Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at Midwestern ...

According to Dr Baab, this may reflect the Gona population preserving traits from the earliest Homo erectus groups that left ...