The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated ...

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

Excavations of Neolithic site in Turkey suggest human settlements more than 12,000 years ago ...

A 4,000-year-old burial site in Sudan contains the first evidence of a mysterious funeral ritual that could rewrite parts of ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

Several SDSU students are embarking on a week-long research expedition to the Channel Islands with the goal of potentially ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of bread-making at a site in northeastern Jordan. Dating back some 14,400 years, the discovery shows that ancient hunter-gatherers were making and ...

New research shows early humans relied on many plant foods. They ground seeds, cooked roots, and used simple tools long ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

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