The buried remains of a small child, discovered nearly a century ago in a cave on Israel’s Mount Carmel, are once again at ...

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

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 ...

The 12,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey is often called the “zero point of history”, said The Archaeologist. But ...

Fossilized human footprints in the Arabian Peninsula are forcing researchers to redraw the map of our species’ early journeys ...

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 ...

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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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 six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...